Direction: Noboru Tanaka
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Noboru Tanaka. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market
1974 · Movie · 83 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Melka Seri · Junko Miyashita · Genshu Hanayagi · Moeko Ezawa
Plot Noboru Tanaka returned to direct the third of Nikkatsu's pinku eiga melodramas examining prostitution in various Japanese cities. This one focuses on modern-day Osaka, and although it is still a...
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32 votes
6.1
32 votes
Night of the Felines
1972 · Movie · 70 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Tomoko Katsura · Ken Yoshizawa · Hidemi Hara · Hidetoshi Kageyama
Plot Bathhouse prostitute Masako and her street-whore friend Jun are pawn for their Yakuza Pimps. These girls have lost control over their own existence, passed from one client to the next...
5.9
53 votes
5.9
53 votes
A Woman Called Abe Sada
1975 · Movie · 76 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Junko Miyashita · Hideaki Esumi · Genshu Hanayagi · Yoshie Kitsuda
Plot In 1936 a geisha named Abe Sada was found wandering around the streets of Kyoto with a knife, a rope, and a severed penis in her hands. The latter turned...
5.5
43 votes
5.5
43 votes
Watcher in the Attic
1976 · Movie · 76 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Junko Miyashita · Renji Ishibashi · Hiroshi Chô · Kyôichi Mizuki
Plot The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing...
5.0
50 votes
5.0
50 votes
Female Teacher
1977 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Eiko Nagashima · Masato Furuoya · Moeko Ezawa · Osamu Tsuruoka
Plot A young teacher (Eiko Nagashima) is raped by students. She tries to resign but then decides to return and face the class.
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Woman on the Night Train
1972 · Movie · 71 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Mari Tanaka · Keiko Tsuzuki · Toshihiko Oda · Tomoko Katsura
Plot Saeko is abnormally attached to her older sister, Yumi. When Yumi becomes engaged to Arikawa, Saeko schemes to separate the two. She seduces Arikawa who then becomes confused over his...
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Spectacle of Buds
1986 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Yôko Kôno · Mitsuru Hirata · Koichi Sato · Yoshi Kato
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Pink Salon: Five Lewd Women
1978 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Kyoko Aoyama · Erina Miyai · Eiko Matsuda · Machiko Ohtani
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International Gangs of Kobe
1975 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Ken Takakura · Isao Natsuyagi · Yoko Maki · Toshitaka Itô
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Female Teacher: Private Life
1973 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Ayako Ichikawa · Morio Kazama · Hitomi Kozue · Osamu Tsuruoka
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Amorous Family: Like a Fox and a Racoon
1972 · Movie · 72 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Mari Tanaka · Mikiko Sakai · Chigusa Takayama · Michiko Komori
Plot Roman Porno film depicting the great uproar that the children cause in the division of their property, even before their parents are dead, as they claw at their greed.
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Beads from a Petal
1972 · Movie · 71 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Rie Nakagawa · Songen Mita · Keiko Maki · Kazuko Shirakawa
Plot Yukie is a young woman who works at her father’s flower shop. She uses her job to hide from her problems including a marriage troubled by her sexual frigidity. Her...
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Monster Woman ’88
1988 · Movie · 104 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Naomi Oki · Ryuji Saito · Yoshimi Ashikawa · Kenzo Hagiwara
Plot Satomi is young woman that works in computer communication. One day she receives a strange message. And the person that sent it to her has committed suicide. As days go...
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Village Of Doom
1983 · Movie · 115 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Masato Furuoya · Misako Tanaka · Kumiko Ohba · Isao Natsuyagi
Plot An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers.
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Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture!
1977 · Movie · 83 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Junko Miyashita · Hatsuo Yamatani · Hiroshi Chô · Ikunosuke Koizumi
Plot Left by his wife an S&M artist starts a sexual relationship with a prostitute met in a brothel.To satisfy his fantasies and fulfill his art he begins torturing and sexually...
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Excitement Class: Love Techniques
1972 · Movie · 72 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Mari Tanaka · Nobutaka Masutomi · Moeko Ezawa · Ryuji Nakamura
Plot Tormented by his first sexual stirrings, the teenager Isao dreams every night of his gym teacher Ikuko. He finally opens her heart but she rejects his advances. Frustrated, Isao invents...
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The Oldest Profession
1974 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Melka Seri · Junko Miyashita · Genshu Hanayagi · Moeko Ezawa
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Midnight Fairy
1973 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Yuri Yamashina · Morio Kazama · Setsuko Ohyama · Nobutaka Masutomi
Plot Kazuo is an angry young man, especially resentful of the power and snootiness of the rich. But at the same time he's obsessed with Saeko, the daughter of a rich...
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Target of Lust
1979 · Movie · 70 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Erina Miyai · Minako Mizushima · Mayuko Hino · Shinshô Nakamaru
Plot Kenzo, Azusa’s husband, has a heart condition but his passion for sex has not diminished one iota from the time he was still a virile, young man. Azusa does not...
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Angel Guts: Nami
1979 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Eri Kanuma · Takeo Chii · Mimi Sawaki · Kyoko Aoyama
Plot The Angel Guts films are both controversial and classics of Japanese pinku cinema, that deal with the taboo subject of rape and its effects on the people involved in it....
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