Yōzō Tanaka Trailers
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Yōzō Tanaka is a Japanese screenwriter. He was born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. After joining the production department of Nichigeki Music Hall, he started writing radio scripts. While he was a student at Waseda University, he met Atsushi Yamatoya and Kaname Kawachi. Before becoming a screenwriter, Tanaka worked as a reporter, conducting a series of interviews with eccentrics in the magazine Weekly Sankei. After joining Nikkatsu, he joined a screenwriting team led by director Seijun Suzuki. Individuals in this group such as Tanaka, Yamatoya, and Chūsei Sone also contributed to various projects at Wakamatsu Productions during this period of the 1960s.
He is also a driving force behind the heyday of Nikkatsu Roman Porno, writing numerous screenplays. He continued to collaborate with fellow veterans of the aforementioned series such as Shinji Sōmai and Kichitaro Negishi.
His disciples include Haruhiko Arai and Miho Nakazono.
In 2005, he worked as an associate professor at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts.
In 2017, a book of Yōzō Tanaka's essays and other archival materials such as interviews and screenplays was published.
Most Popular Yōzō Tanaka Trailers
Total trailers found: 71
12 April 1980
A stripper reluctantly returns to her manager and husband with her new lover in tow. The lover tries to claim her but after escaping a beating he takes to the road alone meeting several women along the way.
03 October 2004
Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho.
01 October 1977
After a fight with a local girl gang, Yoko serves time in prison. After her release the world she once knew has changed.
21 August 1981
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
19 December 1981
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
14 July 1973
Monk Seigen saves Misako the daughter of an area Yakuza boss from some tough guys. The two become a couple and find themselves being pursued by some criminals.
03 June 1979
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.
16 September 1972
Sold into prostitution by her "uncle", a young girl is so innocent and naive that she doesn't know what she has to do.
09 April 1974
Fresh out of prison a manager of live sex shows decides to take his show on the road. He persuades one of his former performers to join his troupe and she learns new tricks of the trade.
16 December 1972
Roman Porno from 1972.
31 May 1991
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
25 December 1976
“Get them all – girls, school credits, money – without an effort!" These are the rumors that freshman Hachirota Kawachi heard about the pep squad; his reasons for instant enrollment.
25 August 1973
In a free spirited and rowdy slum a forbidden romance forms between a samurai and a lower class girl who impersonates his future bride.
26 October 1974
A former husband with a dark obsession returns to his ex-wife’s life, ready to unleash a torrent of cruel, perverse devotion.
01 September 1979
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
22 June 1974
Shizuka is the aristocratic wife of the president of a large company. When she wants to divorce her domineering husband, he orders his employee Yoshi, the son of an adult toy store owner, to train his wife to become sexually submissive.
25 April 1973
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
14 October 1975
Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi she tries to use sex as a means to climb to a better social position.
11 February 1977
Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists.
28 September 1996
Attending the funeral of one of his friends, Satoru sees a woman who looks exactly like his deceased wife Shizuko.
24 October 1987
A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera singer.
26 May 1979
A plot to steal money from gangsters leads to trouble...
14 March 1977
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa.
14 March 1987
A woman named Fujiki Asuka arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar master Tamura who had guided Yakuza's escaping as a shoji.
21 February 2025
In the early 1920s, Yasuko, a budding actress, crosses paths with Chūya Nakahara, a young poet destined to be revered as a genius.
18 December 2010
16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppuku (ritual suicide), the sole survivor of that incident, Kichiemon Terasaka (Koichi Sato) traverses the country on a mission.
23 January 1981
A teacher, Sakiko Kurata, receives a phone call regarding one of her former students. Young Sueko is accused of being a prostitute and has requested Sakiko’s help.
16 February 1974
Yumiko Tateno, an office worker, is somewhat interested in the opposite sex, but she has had few opportunities and remains a virgin.
21 February 1973
Kazuko Shirakawa plays herself as a student who is scouted by a pink film producer. She leads a chaotic life until finding success at Nikkatsu studios.
07 August 1981
Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him and only him, yet she is constantly being lust by others.
26 January 1974
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
06 October 1984
Set in the 1930s in the international city of Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one advance paycheck to the next, as the country teeters over the brink into the Second Sino-Japanese War.
10 October 2009
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo.
01 November 1975
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi".
12 March 1994
A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden.
15 June 1967
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
26 October 1974
Writer and ladies-man Yonosuke, who gives inept English lessons (using Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet), is mistakenly ushered into the back entrance of a woman's house one rainy night.
10 October 1986
Travel into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager; Yusaku, the exam-addled college student; Mrs.
24 December 1977
The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep alive and the innate strength of post-war women.
29 October 1983
A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade's secrets.
13 January 1973
Kyotaro Tsugumo, a university professor and medical doctor, is the director of the Sexuality Research Institute.
21 December 1985
Iori, taken from an orphanage by a family for domestic work, runs away and is adopted and raised by two young men.
01 April 1980
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
26 January 1985
Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend.
14 April 1973
The story of a courtesan that was once popular in Yoshiwara. She is good-looking, but for some reason, three of her customers died unnaturally, one after another.
14 May 1975
Based on a manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this film follows the adventures of Yuki, who works in a Kyoto red-light district house of ill repute as a "tamawari," or "virgin-breaker.
28 February 1976
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region.
26 April 1975
Noyuri lives in Fudōsō, a dilapidated apartment building in downtown Tokyo. The owner of Fudōsō is Noyuri's father, Harukichi, but he lost his house and property due to his gambling and womanizing, and is now living with a young woman.
29 October 1994
One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if she dies, he will never remarry.
23 April 1977
A mix of satire, slapstick and straight ahead Roman Porno. We have two stories of Office Ladies in trouble, a pervert running amok in a park, references to Westside Story, Keystone Cops and other Roman Porno films.
14 February 1976
The sequel depicts Yuki's love affair with a young brothel owner who was once a Noh singer, and his complicated relationship with a woman who follows him around.
26 April 1986
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa.
29 January 1975
Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike and Satomi Kôe.
01 May 1976
Time passes quietly without incident. Shizue lives peacefully as a wife. Masako, who is Shizue's friend and lives in Nagoya, uses Shizue as an alibi and comes to Tokyo several times a month to have an affair.
03 June 1978
Mr. Harry, who suffers from a "peanut sized" penis complex, comes to Japan to undergo a genital transplant operation, the first of its kind in the world.
01 February 1978
The wife of a company president is 29 years old and in the prime of her life. Her husband is a powerful man in the financial world, so they are much older than her.
15 December 1973
A hitman messes up an assassination and so becomes the next target of his organization.
26 August 1972
"After leaving the Yakuza, Oman embraces a quiet normal life - only to be dragged back into a world of violence, when seeking revenge for the brutal murder of those close to her.
