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SABU Age: 60

Actor | Producer

    Sabu (サブ, Sabu, born November 18, 1964) is the pseudonym of Japanese actor and director Hiroyuki Tanaka.

    Born in Wakayama Prefecture, Sabu studied at an Osaka fashion school be

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    Trapped

    徐美凤 ( Actor )

    ... 2025

    Silence

    Samurai #1 ( Actor )

    ... 2016

    Sakuran

    Patron ( Actor )

    ... 2006

Fullname:

SABU

Date of Birth:

Nov 18, 1964

Country of birth:

Japan

Biography of

SABU

    Sabu (サブ, Sabu, born November 18, 1964) is the pseudonym of Japanese actor and director Hiroyuki Tanaka.

    Born in Wakayama Prefecture, Sabu studied at an Osaka fashion school before deciding to go to Tokyo to become a professional musician. It was suggested he try acting and in 1986 he made his film debut in Sorobanzuku. He earned his first starring role in the 1991 World Apartment Horror, a live-action film directed by Katsuhiro Ōtomo of Akira fame. Working from a script he wrote himself, he made his directorial debut with the 1996 Dangan Runner, a film that set his early style of "quirky action-comedies propelled by characters who hurtle headlong though squirming narratives steered more by the forces of incidence and coincidence than the actions of the protagonists themselves." Shin'ichi Tsutsumi played the lead in Sabu's first five films. Blessing Bell, starring Susumu Terajima (who has played minor roles in nearly all of Sabu's films), was a turn away from his kinetic, parodic, and black comedy narratives, and earned the NETPAC Award at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival. Later films featured the J-pop band V6. In 2009, he directed The Crab Cannery Ship, a modern adaptation of a classic of Japanese proletarian literature written by Takiji Kobayashi.

    He has continued to work as an actor, such as in Takashi Miike's Ichi the Killer (2001).

    His film Chasuke's Journey was selected to be screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.

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SABU

Found 21 Movies in total

Trapped

徐美凤 ( Actor )

... 2025

Silence

Samurai #1 ( Actor )

... 2016

Sakuran

Patron ( Actor )

... 2006

... 2003

Ichi the Killer

Kaneko ( Actor )

... 2001

Unlucky Monkey

Bank Robber ( Actor )

Writer

... 1998

Postman Blues

Kurokawa ( Actor )

Writer

... 1997

... 1996

Don't Look Up

Sekikawa ( Actor )

... 1996

... 1996

... 1995

... 1995

... 1995

Zëiram 2

Fujikuro (as Sabu) ( Actor )

... 1994

Kiriko

Actor

... 1994

... 1994

... 1994

... 1993

... 1992

... 1991

... 1991