Direction: Masahiro Shinoda

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Shima Iwashita · Kamatari Fujiwara · Jun Hamamura

Plot Shinoda's interesting film is a generally faithful adaptation of a play by Chikamatsu, preserving all the theatrical conventions of the puppet theatre original, and even trumping that level of artifice...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Mariko Kaga · Takashi Fujiki · Chisako Hara

Plot Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, he meets Saeko, a striking young upper-class woman...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Takashi Fujiki · Mariko Kaga · Kyôko Kishida · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Plot In Shinoda’s look at codes of obligation, a union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was responsible...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Tetsuya Fujita · Yuji Horioka · Katsuhisa Yamazaki · Noritake Kobinata

Plot Bombing during World War II resulted in whole urban populations fleeing to the countryside, and this created a meeting of urban and rural cultures. Shinji (a young boy evacuated from...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Shima Iwashita · Yoshio Harada · Tomoko Naraoka · Taiji Tonoyama

Plot Orin is a blind travelling musician who’s expected to remain celibate. However, when she gets raped her traveling music troupe throws her out for allowing it to happen. Now on...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Kaoru Yachigusa · Mariko Kaga · Sô Yamamura · Kei Yamamoto

Plot Long before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. She got pregnant, but the child was stillborn. Their relation stopped...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Shima Iwashita · Hiroko Isayama · Kô Nishimura

Plot Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees tells the tale of a beautiful city woman and a bandit that has fallen in love with her. After kidnapping the object of his affection...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Eiji Okada · Eitarô Ozawa · Isao Kimura

Plot The film follows the brief life of Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious ronin (master-less samurai) in a time of political tumult in 19th Century Japan. Kiyokawa, a mysterious character and expert...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Shinichiro Mikami · Shima Iwashita · Kayoko Honjo · Hizuru Takachiho

Plot This is the film that confirmed Shinoda's status as one of the founders of the Japanese New Wave. Written by the controversial Shûji Terayama (Rally in the Streets), it was...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Koji Takahashi · Eiji Okada · Kei Sato · Jun Hamamura

Plot Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Shima Iwashita · Yoshi Kato · Don Kenny · David Lampson

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Shima Iwashita · Sayoko Ninomiya · Haruko Sugimura

Plot Based on novel by Shintaro Ishihara, this is a human drama about the complex relationship of parent and child. Haruo spends his time working in a university hospital when he...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Shima Iwashita · Masao Kusakari · Rentarô Mikuni · Rie Yokoyama

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Suisen Ichikawa · Shima Iwashita · Tetsurô Tanba

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Akira Nitta · Shima Iwashita · Hosei Komatsu · Rentarô Mikuni

Plot A young man returns to the island where he was held prisoner as a child. He was sent to the island as a boy so he could not reveal the...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Yusuke Kawazu · Shima Iwashita · Ichiro Sugai · Kô Nishimura

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Takeshi Kaga · Masato Furuoya · Jun Hamamura · Sen Hara

Plot The final entry in the Kosuke Kindaichi series of the late seventies.

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Iain Glen · Masahiro Motoki · Kippei Shiina · Takaya Kamikawa

Plot Spy Sorge depicts the life of Soviet spy Richard Sorge, whose infiltration of the German embassy in Tokyo gave Stalin an ear to Axis plans through the 1930's and into...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Takaya Yamauchi · Yoshiyuki Omori · Shiori Sakura · Masako Natsume

Plot In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Haruko Katô · Hideji Ôtaki · Kuniko Miyake · Choichiro Kawarazaki

Plot The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojo for the honor to...