Noboru Tanaka | |
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| Born | August 15, 1937 Hakuba, Nagano, Japan |
| Died | October 4, 2006 (aged 69) |
| Occupation(s) | Film director and screenwriter |
| Years active | 1972 – 1988 |
| Awards | Best New Director, Japan Society of Film Directors: 1973 |
Noboru Tanaka (田中 登, Tanaka Noboru, August 15, 1937 – October 4, 2006) was a Japanese film director known for his Roman Porno films, including three critically respected films known as the Showa trilogy: A Woman Called Sada Abe (aka Sada Abe: Docu-Drama) (1975), Watcher in the Attic (1976), and Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! (1977), all three starring Nikkatsu Roman porno queen Junko Miyashita. The first film in this trilogy recounted the story of Sada Abe a year before Nagisa Oshima's internationally released In the Realm of the Senses (1976), which told the same story. Though at the time he was working, his career was overshadowed by directors such as Tatsumi Kumashiro and Chūsei Sone, many critics today judge Tanaka the best of Nikkatsu's Roman porno directors.[1]