Taro Kanbe (神戸 たろう, Kanbe Tarō, born December 2, 1977) is a Japanese adult film (AV) director. He is an employee supervisor at Rocket, an AV manufacturer company of distributor Soft On Demand. He worked at V&R Planning from 2002 to 2007. In January 2008, he founded a new label, Rocket, with Shingo Takemoto, Temple Suwa, and Uzumaki Sasaki. He is currently the head of the production department at Rocket, but also continues his works as a director. His specialized genres are "dirty talk", "incest", "shota", and "lesbian". Prior to joining V&R Planning, he worked at Soft on Demand.