Tanaka Noboru

[Jason Gray]

This is too bad -- he seemed in fine spirits recently.
Jasper and I interviewed him for Artsmagic back in July
2004 for the Angel Guts box set. Just four months ago I
caught three screenings of his Nikkatsu retrospective at
Laputa. The last of the three entries is sadly ironic:

http://jasongray.blogspot.com/2006/05/pointilism-iii.html

http://jasongray.blogspot.com/2006/05/back-to-old-house.html

http://jasongray.blogspot.com/2006/06/as-far-as-i-know-i-havent-even-died.html


jg


> Aaron Gerow wrote:
> > The Asahi reported this morning that the Roman
> Porno director Tanaka 
> > Noboru died on the 4th of a brain aneurysm. He was
> 69. Tanaka was almost 
> > exclusively a Nikkatsu director, making his first
> film there in 1972. 
> > Most of his works were in the Roman Porno line,
> with the most famous 
> > probably being Jitsuroku Abe Sada (1975), Yaneura
> no sanposha (1976), 
> > Tenshi no harawata Nami (1979), and Hitozuma
> shudan boko chishi jiken 
> > (1979). The last one earned him the Japanese
> Academy  Award for best 
> > director and the first three are available in one
> form or another abroad 
> > with English subtitles. His last theatrical film
> was in 1988 (again for 
> > Nikkatsu), but he continued working in TV,
> directing dozens of mystery 
> > suspense TV movies.
> > 
> > Aaron Gerow
> > KineJapan owner
> > 
> > Assistant Professor
> > Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and
> Literatures
> > Yale University
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> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Christine L. Marran
> Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and
> Cultural Studies
> Director of Undergraduate Studies
> Department of Asian Languages and Literatures
> University of Minnesota
> 
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