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.

（サブ，Sabu，1964年11月18日-）是日本演员兼导演田中博之的笔名。 Sabu出生于和歌山县，在决定前往东京成为一名专业音乐家之前，曾在大阪时装学校学习。有人建议他尝试表演，并于 1986 年在 Sorobanzuku 首次亮相。他在 1991 年的《世界公寓恐怖》中获得了他的第一个主演角色，这是一部由阿基拉成名的大友克洋执导的真人电影。根据他自己写的剧本，他在 1996 年的《Dangan Runner》中完成了自己的导演处女作，这部电影奠定了他早期的风格，即“古怪的动作喜剧由角色推动，这些角色在蠕动的叙事中一头扎进去，更多地是由偶然和巧合的力量而不是主角本身的行为所引导的。Shin'ichi Tsutsumi 在 Sabu 的前五部电影中担任主角。由寺岛进武（Susumu Terajima）主演的《祝福钟》（Blessing Bell）几乎在萨布的所有电影中都扮演过次要角色，这与他的动感、恶搞和黑色喜剧叙事背道而驰，并在 2003 年柏林电影节上获得了 NETPAC 奖。后来的电影以 J-pop 乐队 V6 为特色。2009年，他执导了《螃蟹罐头厂船》，这是一部改编自小林泷二创作的日本无产阶级文学经典的现代作品。 他继续担任演员，例如在三池崇史的《杀手一》（2001 年）中。 他的电影《Chasuke's Journey》入选第65届柏林国际电影节主竞赛单元。