Screenplay: SABU
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by SABU. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 18
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
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
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
Non-Stop (Dangan Runner)
1996 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan
Direction SABU
Cast Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Tomorô Taguchi · Diamond Yukai · Akaji Maro
6.2
42 votes
6.2
42 votes
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
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
Direction SABU
Cast Masayuki Sakamoto · Go Morita · Hiroshi Nagano · Ken Miyake
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
Direction SABU
Cast Ken'ichi Matsuyama · Yusuke Iseya · Susumu Terajima · Ren Osugi
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
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
Direction SABU
Cast Arata Furuta · Masatô Ibu · Yoshihiko Inohara · Ayumi Ito
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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.
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