Yōzō Tanaka
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.
Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy
(Writer)
Virgin Breaker Yuki
(Screenplay)
Trapped in Lust
(Screenplay)
Yakuza Justice: Erotic Code of Honor
(Screenplay)
The General and His Empire of Joy
(Writer)
Season of Betrayal
(Assistant Director)
Forbidden Ordeal
(Screenplay)
The Rivals
(Screenplay)
Cabaret
(Screenplay)
Violent Panic: The Big Crash
(Screenplay)
A Mummy’s Love
(Screenplay)
The Friends
(Screenplay)
Story of a Nymphomaniac
(Screenplay)
Baian the Assassin
(Screenplay)
Secret Chronicle: Prostitution Market
(Screenplay)
Villon's Wife
(Screenplay)
College Girls: Sex Equation
(Screenplay)
Zoku tameiki
(Screenplay)
Yasuko, Songs of Days Past
(Screenplay)
Hanjiro, A Great Philanderer
(Screenplay)
Case of the Disjointed Murder
(Screenplay)
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
(Screenplay)
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
(Screenplay)
Handbook on Love
(Screenplay)
Foreigner's Mistress Oman: Tempestuous Skin
(Screenplay)
Season of Betrayal
(Screenplay)
Hell's Angels: Crimson Roar
(Screenplay)
Sigh
(Screenplay)
The Inferno
(Screenplay)
Female Teacher: Dirty Afternoon
(Screenplay)
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
(Screenplay)
Moment of Demon
(Screenplay)
Secret of One Summer
(Screenplay)
Secret of the College Girls: Part-Time Sex Pros
(Screenplay)
Luminous Woman
(Screenplay)
Love Letter
(Screenplay)
Woman's Trail: Wet Path
(Screenplay)
In the Realm of Sex
(Screenplay)
The Hell-Fated Courtesan
(Screenplay)
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
(Screenplay)
Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion
(Screenplay)
Morning Frenzy
(Screenplay)
Kagero-za
(Screenplay)
Shanghai Rhapsody
(Screenplay)
Tsumatachi no gogo wa yori: kannō no ori
(Screenplay)
The Last Ronin
(Screenplay)
Virgin Breaker Yuki II: Western Licensed District
(Screenplay)
The Lady in a Black Dress
(Screenplay)
The Catch
(Screenplay)
Hihon: Sode to sode
(Screenplay)
Maruhi: Benten gokaichō
(Screenplay)
Ah! That Pep Squad
(Screenplay)
Ghost Pub
(Screenplay)
New Ghost Pub
(Screenplay)
Zigeunerweisen
(Screenplay)
Yumeji
(Screenplay)
Ah! That Pep Squad 2 -Put on a Good Act-
(Screenplay)
Ah! That Pep Squad 3 -Tears of a Man-
(Screenplay)
Secret Chronicle: Crimson Goddess in Paradise
(Screenplay)
Gate of Flesh
(Screenplay)
Flower & Snake
(Screenplay)
Young Beast: Secret Pleasures
(Screenplay)
Branded to Kill
(Screenplay)
Harry and His Geisha Girls
(Story)
Mrs. Muremure
(Screenplay)
The Shogun Assassins
(Screenplay)
No Grave for Us
(Screenplay)
Make-Up
(Screenplay)
Wife to Be Sacrificed
(Screenplay)
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
(Screenplay)
Translucent Tree
(Screenplay)
Horror Theater Unbalance
(Writer)
Detective Story
(Writer)