Directing

Shigeo Tanaka

Born — Died

1907-01-07 — 1992-01-18

Place of birth

Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Yoru wa usotsuki poster
NR

A small restaurant tucked away in the back of Ginza is run by Keiko, the owner’s daughter. Writers, club owners, corporate executives, and others are drawn to her charm.

Yoru wa usotsuki

1960

Dare yori mo dare yori mo kimi o aisu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dare yori mo dare yori mo kimi o aisu

1961

Gamera vs. Barugon poster
6.4

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.

Gamera vs. Barugon

1966

Asakusa Lights poster
NR

A passionate singer who’s rough around the edges but has a warm heart; a kind-hearted, impoverished painter who devotes himself wholeheartedly; and a beautiful opera singer loved by both of them—the joys and sorrows of Asakusa during the golden age of opera.

Asakusa Lights

1956

Teen-ager's Resistance poster
NR

A college student falls in love with a notorious delinquent girl.

Teen-ager's Resistance

1955

No artwork available
NR

Yamagami, who had been working as an engineer at an automobile factory in Manchuria, returns to postwar Tokyo for the first time in five years and is devastated to learn that his former lover, Mitsuko, had become the wife of Professor Oikawa. Now a married woman, Mitsuko is shocked to learn that Yamagami, who had been falsely reported as dead, is still alive. Conflicted about her feelings, Mitsuko confesses everything to her husband.

Thunderstorm

1946

Behind the camera

Yoru wa usotsuki poster
NR

A small restaurant tucked away in the back of Ginza is run by Keiko, the owner’s daughter. Writers, club owners, corporate executives, and others are drawn to her charm.

Yoru wa usotsuki

1960

Dare yori mo dare yori mo kimi o aisu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dare yori mo dare yori mo kimi o aisu

1961

Gamera vs. Barugon poster
6.4

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.

Gamera vs. Barugon

1966

Asakusa Lights poster
NR

A passionate singer who’s rough around the edges but has a warm heart; a kind-hearted, impoverished painter who devotes himself wholeheartedly; and a beautiful opera singer loved by both of them—the joys and sorrows of Asakusa during the golden age of opera.

Asakusa Lights

1956

Teen-ager's Resistance poster
NR

A college student falls in love with a notorious delinquent girl.

Teen-ager's Resistance

1955

No artwork available
NR

Yamagami, who had been working as an engineer at an automobile factory in Manchuria, returns to postwar Tokyo for the first time in five years and is devastated to learn that his former lover, Mitsuko, had become the wife of Professor Oikawa. Now a married woman, Mitsuko is shocked to learn that Yamagami, who had been falsely reported as dead, is still alive. Conflicted about her feelings, Mitsuko confesses everything to her husband.

Thunderstorm

1946

Tainted Flowers poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tainted Flowers

1958

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dai ni no hōyō

1947

Tokyo Elegy poster
NR

In 1945, in a Shanghai filled with a palpable sense of unease as the war was still raging, Atsuko Kijima and Ryuji Kudo fell in love and exchanged promises of marriage. Ryuji was deployed shortly thereafter, and after the war ended, he was taken to Siberia as a prisoner of war. Atsuko, who had returned to Tokyo, clung to the promise she had made with Ryuji—that if he were safe, he would “come to the garden of St. Nicholas Cathedral at noon on Christmas Day.” Relying on that promise, she went to St. Nicholas Cathedral at noon on Christmas Day in both 1946 and 1947, but Ryuji never appeared.

Tokyo Elegy

1951

Mother poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mother

1958

No artwork available
NR

A melodrama in which two lovers reunite after a long journey through life.

Aizenso

1949

Doyō fujin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Doyō fujin

1948

Arashi no naka no shimai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Arashi no naka no shimai

1949

Love River poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Love River

1958

San kyōdai no kettō poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

San kyōdai no kettō

1960

Nanatsu no seiza poster
NR

A story of first love between a misogynistic astronomer and a dancer he met on the street.

Nanatsu no seiza

1951

No artwork available
NR

A romantic action drama set in early Meiji-era Hokkaido, centered on a passionate, justice-seeking newspaper reporter who takes on an official seeking to line his own pockets, alongside an ill-fated brother and sister harboring a desire for revenge.

Eki basha osowaru

1957

The Great Wall poster
7.5

In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted autocratic dictatorship and led a luxurious life: abolition of feudalism and the centralization of power in the form of a now-hereditary bureaucracy loyal to himself; burning books and burying scholars; the construction of a sumptuous palace for his concubines and also the Great Wall.

The Great Wall

1962

Daigaku no kotengu poster
NR

With his mother’s wishes and a young woman’s prayers in his heart, a spirited young man fights to uphold the honor of college judo.

Daigaku no kotengu

1952

Wagaya no kaze poster
NR

Depicting a family during wartime.

Wagaya no kaze

1943

War of the Monsters poster
8.0

An expedition goes out to a remote island to find a priceless opal. This opal happens to be the egg of the powerful Barugon, a huge lizard-like monster that can freeze foes with its long tongue or disintegrate them with its devastating rainbow ray. When Gammera begins to fight Barugon, several plans begin to stop both monsters and keep the damage of Japan at a minimum.

War of the Monsters

1967

Princess and I poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Princess and I

1962

Yoru wa ijiwaru poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yoru wa ijiwaru

1961

No artwork available
NR

A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.

Tsuma mo koisu

1950

Ripe and Marriageable poster
10.0

1959 youth comedy.

Ripe and Marriageable

1959

As If To Kill poster
NR

Not far from Yurakucho, on the riverbank, stands the Nishida Clinic, with signs advertising internal medicine, surgery, and gynecology. The examination room of the clinic’s director, Dr. Heizo Nishida, is frequented by mysterious women and black-marketeers. Toshio Shimamura, president of “Seiso Shinpo”, takes notice of this. Ayako Toda, who lost her parents during repatriation and was taken in by Shimamura is ordered to extort 50,000 yen from Nishida, but in the process meets his son Ippei.

As If To Kill

1948

Duel at Noon poster
NR

Judo movie.

Duel at Noon

1957

Paper Pigeon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Paper Pigeon

1959

Saigo no kikyō poster
NR

1945 Japanese movie

Saigo no kikyō

1945

Hana no Inochi wo poster
NR

Japanese drama from 1954

Hana no Inochi wo

1954

新・与太郎戦記 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

新・与太郎戦記

1969

I Love You poster
NR

A romantic story about a young medical student and a Japanese dancer who meet while watching a university ice hockey league game, and how they overcome various difficulties to be together.

I Love You

1956

Shinkon noroke bushi poster
NR

A comedy about newlyweds.

Shinkon noroke bushi

1953

Tōkyō no josei poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tōkyō no josei

1960

Wakai yatsura no kaidan poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Wakai yatsura no kaidan

1961

Butai wa mawaru poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Butai wa mawaru

1948

Phoenix poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Phoenix

1950

Newlywed Diary: An Embarrassing Dream poster
NR

Chieko gets married and moves from Kumamoto to Tokyo when her boyfriend Saburo, who works for the Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, is transferred to Tokyo. Her husband's mentor, a university professor, moved to the United States, and she ended up house-sitting at his residence. However, it's the only house in the neighborhood with a telephone, so Chieko is exhausted from making phone calls all day long.

Newlywed Diary: An Embarrassing Dream

1956

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fire Department

1951

Champion Woman Gambler poster
9.0

Ninth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Champion Woman Gambler

1968