SABU
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1964-11-18 (61 years old)
Place of Birth
Wakayama, Japan
Also known As
Hiroki Tanaka
田中博行
サブ
Hiroyuki Tanaka
田中博樹
SABU
Biography
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 he...
Acting
2001
as Kaneko
1994
as Fujikuro (as Sabu)
1991
as Ita
1996
as Assassin
1993
1994
as Kyoichi Nakazawa
1995
1997
as Kurokawa
1994
2016
as Samurai #1
2003
as Patron
1995
as Shusuke Shimada
2006
as Patron
1998
as Bank Robber
1996
as Sekikawa
Production
2000
as Screenplay
1997
as Director
2000
as Director
2002
as Director
2002
as Screenplay
2015
as Screenplay
2002
as Director
2005
as Director
1998
as Director
1998
as Writer
2011
as Director
1996
as Director
2003
as Director
2003
as Director
2005
as Director
2009
as Director
2013
as Director
2013
as Writer
2002
as Writer
2021
as Screenplay
2021
2015
as Director
2023
as Director
2019
as Editor
2018
as Editor
2017
as Director
2017
as Director
2017
as Screenplay
1997
as Writer
2009
as Screenplay
2003
as Screenplay
2005
as Screenplay
2011
as Screenplay
2005
as Writer
2018
as Director
2018
as Screenplay
1996
as Screenplay
2019
as Director
2019
as Writer
2021
as Director
2017
as Screenplay
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