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. 사부(1964년생, Wakayama, Japan) 는 감독으로, 대표작으로 트러블 맨, 狂忘警探, 언더 유어 베드가 있으며, 그 외에도 버니드롭, JAM ―the drama―, 미스터 롱, 미스 좀비, 먼데이, 탄환주자, 昨日より赤く明日より青く-CINEMA FIGHTERS project-, 포스트맨 블루스, 잼, 부서져 흩어지는 모습을 보여줄게, 게어선, 언럭키 몽키 등 다양한 작품을 연출했다. 특히 2026년에는 狂忘警探에도 참여해서 활동중이다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2027년 狂忘警探 연출을 맡았다. 2027년 狂忘警探 집필을 맡았다. 2023년 언더 유어 베드 연출을 맡았다.