Screenplay: SABU

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by SABU. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Monday

2000 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction SABU

Cast Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Yasuko Matsuyuki · Masanobu Ando · Nanako Ôkôchi

Synopsis A salaryman wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before - attending a funeral, dating but annoying his girlfriend, getting drunk in a pub and getting...

6.8

375 votes

6.8

375 votes

Postman Blues

1997 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

Direction SABU

Cast Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Keisuke Horibe · Ren Osugi · Kyôko Toyama

Synopsis The film begins, when Ryuichi Sawaki, the postman (played by Shinichi Tsutsumi), is caught by undercover cops, not only mailing a letter to the member of a yakuza gang, but walking in and staying there for quite a while. This...

6.8

248 votes

6.8

248 votes

Drive

2002 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction SABU

Cast Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Kou Shibasaki · Ren Osugi · Masanobu Ando

Synopsis In Drive, Tsutsumi is a salaryman, Asakura, who is carjacked and kidnapped by three bank robbers and ordered to pursue a fourth man, who has escaped with the loot and the getaway car.Trouble is, Asakura has spent his whole life...

6.6

35 votes

6.6

35 votes

Usagi Drop

2011 · Movie · 114 min. · Japan

Direction SABU

Cast Ken'ichi Matsuyama · Karina · Mana Ashida · Mirei Kiritani

Synopsis Movie adaptation of the manga "Usagi Doroppu". Daikichi (Matsuyama) a 27 year-old working man returns home to attend his grandfather's funeral. There, he meets his grandfather illegitimate daughter Rin (Ashida) a 6 year-old little girl who is rejected by the...

6.5

89 votes

6.5

89 votes

Blessing Bell

2002 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction SABU

Cast Susumu Terajima · Naomi Nishida · Itsuji Itao · Seijun Suzuki

Synopsis After losing his job at the factory Igarashi aimlessly wanders through Tokyo where he encounters various people and gains insight into their lives.

6.5

31 votes

6.5

31 votes

Jam

2018 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction SABU

Cast Shin'taro Akiyama · Shô Aoyagi · Keita Machida · Shûhei Nogae

Synopsis Hiroshi, Takeru and Tetsuo all live in the same city. Hiroshi is an unpopular idol singer and he feels a void in his life. He is placed under confinement by his fan Masako. Takeru believes that a girl returns to...

6.4

37 votes

6.4

37 votes

Unlucky Monkey

1998 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan

Direction SABU

Cast Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Hiroshi Shimizu · Ikko Suzuki · Kimika Yoshino

Synopsis Nishida and Yamazaki are nervous as they are about to rob a bank when another thief, dressed identically to them, comes running out with the loot. In the blink of an eye, Nishida and the robber are felled by a...

6.4

89 votes

6.4

89 votes

6.2

42 votes

Mr. Long

2017 · Movie · 129 min. · Japan

Direction SABU

Cast Chang Chen · Shô Aoyagi · Yi-Ti Yao · Runyin Bai

Synopsis Professional hitman Long takes on an assignment in Japan. When things go awry, he has to flee. Badly injured, he takes refuge in a deserted part of a small town. A young boy brings him water and clothing. Long installs...

6.2

36 votes

6.2

36 votes

Dead Run

2005 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan

Direction SABU

Cast Yuya Tegoshi · Hanae Kan · Miki Nakatani · Etsushi Toyokawa

Synopsis Shuji is struggling to grow up in a small seaside town that is being redeveloped to become a major resort. He starts going to church with his cynical older brother and there he meets the orphan girl Eri, who is...

6.1

26 votes

6.1

26 votes

Dancing Mary

2019 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

Direction SABU

Cast Naoto · Aina Yamada · Nozomi Bandô

5.5

26 votes

5.5

26 votes

Hard Luck Hero

2003 · Movie · 79 min. · Japan

5.4

21 votes

5.4

21 votes

Miss Zombie

2013 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan

Direction SABU

Cast Ayaka Komatsu · Makoto Togashi · Toru Tezuka · Tarô Suruga

Synopsis A doctor and his family receive an unexpected delivery from an old friend at their remote country home - a large wooden crate containing a gun, a female zombie and an instruction sheet telling them not to feed her meat....

5.4

115 votes

5.4

115 votes

Chasuke’s Journey

2015 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan

5.0

37 votes

5.0

37 votes

Tokyo Dead Rising (S)

2011 · Movie · 8 min. · Japan

Direction SABU

Cast Norifumi Suzuki · Yayoi Shikatani · Ryuten Nakamura · Yukie Mizutani

Synopsis Tokyo Dead Rising is a live action short film adaption of Dead Rising 2: Off the Record. Japanese director and actor Sabu is collaborating with Capcom to direct the short film project.

3.3

25 votes

3.3

25 votes

Happiness

2016 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction SABU

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Orakio · Hiroki Suzuki

Synopsis The film is about a man who owns a helmet which makes you reexperience your happiest moment of your live. The major in the town he lives wants to use him for his good but the man with the helmet...

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Hold Up Down

2005 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

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Not rated

A1012K (S)

2003 · Movie · Japan

Direction SABU

Cast Akiyo · Shihô Harumi · Takanori Kikuchi · Shimoyama Sakaye

Synopsis A robot with human intelligence escapes from a military testing unit and wreaks havoc in a shopping mall.

Not rated

Not rated