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
NRA 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Dare yori mo dare yori mo kimi o aisu
1961
6.4Gamera 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
NRA 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
NRA college student falls in love with a notorious delinquent girl.
Teen-ager's Resistance
1955
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
NRA 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Dare yori mo dare yori mo kimi o aisu
1961
6.4Gamera 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
NRA 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
NRA college student falls in love with a notorious delinquent girl.
Teen-ager's Resistance
1955
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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Tainted Flowers
1958
No synopsis available yet.
Dai ni no hōyō
1947
NRIn 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mother
1958
A melodrama in which two lovers reunite after a long journey through life.
Aizenso
1949
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Doyō fujin
1948
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Arashi no naka no shimai
1949
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Love River
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
San kyōdai no kettō
1960
NRA story of first love between a misogynistic astronomer and a dancer he met on the street.
Nanatsu no seiza
1951
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
7.5In 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
NRWith 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
NRDepicting a family during wartime.
Wagaya no kaze
1943
8.0An 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
NR1962 Japanese movie
Princess and I
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Yoru wa ijiwaru
1961
A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.
Tsuma mo koisu
1950
10.01959 youth comedy.
Ripe and Marriageable
1959
NRNot 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
NRJudo movie.
Duel at Noon
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Paper Pigeon
1959
NR1945 Japanese movie
Saigo no kikyō
1945
NRJapanese drama from 1954
Hana no Inochi wo
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
新・与太郎戦記
1969
NRA 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
NRA comedy about newlyweds.
Shinkon noroke bushi
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tōkyō no josei
1960
NR1961 Japanese movie
Wakai yatsura no kaidan
1961
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Butai wa mawaru
1948
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Phoenix
1950
NRChieko 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 synopsis available yet.
Fire Department
1951
9.0Ninth 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
