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Tag Archives: Masahiro Shinoda
Sharaku (1995) Masahiro Shinoda, Hiroyuki Sanada, Furankî Sakai, Shima Iwashita
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. Read More »
Ballad of Orin AKA Hanare goze Orin (1977) Masahiro Shinoda, Shima Iwashita, Yoshio Harada, Tomoko Naraoka
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country Read More »
Punishment Island AKA Shokei no shima (1966) Masahiro Shinoda, Akira Nitta, Kei Satô, Kinzô Shin
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island Read More »
Himiko (1974) Masahiro Shinoda, Shima Iwashita, Masao Kusakari, Rie Yokoyama
A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko Read More »
Pale Flower AKA Kawaita hana (1964) Masahiro Shinoda, Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki
Just released from prison after serving three years for murdering a member of a rival gang Read More »
Spy Sorge (2003) Masahiro Shinoda, Iain Glen, Masahiro Motoki, Kippei Shîna
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II Read More »
Double Suicide (1969) Masahiro Shinoda, Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita, Shizue Kawarazaki
Set in Osaka in the 18th century, the film centers on the doomed romance between Jihei (Kichiemon Nakamura) Read More »
The Petrified Forest (1973) Masahiro Shinoda, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Sayoko Ninomiya, Masako Yagi
Based on novel by Shintaro Ishihara, this is a human drama about the complex relationship of parent and child. Read More »
Youth in Fury (1960) Masahiro Shinoda, Shin’ichirô Mikami, Shima Iwashita, Kayoko Honoo
A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku’s iconoclastic New Wave. Read More »
Owls Castle (1999) Masahiro Shinoda, Kiichi Nakai, Mayu Tsuruta, Riona Hazuki
As the great military commander Nobunaga Oda was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins Read More »
Assassination (1964) Masahiro Shinoda, Tetsurô Tanba, Shima Iwashita, Eiji Okada
In 1863, when Americans warships approach Japan, a enigmatic ronin becomes a important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire. Read More »
Samurai Spy (1965) Masahiro Shinoda, Hiroshi Aoyama, Jun Hamamura, Osamu Hitomi, Action, Drama
The legendary samurai Sasuke Sarutobi tracks the spy Nojiri, while a mysterious figure named Sakon leads a band of men on their own quest for the wily Nojiri. Read More »
MacArthur’s Children / Setouchi shonen yakyu dan (1984) Masahiro Shinoda, Takaya Yamauchi, Yoshiyuki Omori, Shiori Sakura, Comedy, Drama, War
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 of General MacArthur and his troops.
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Utsukushisa to kanashimi to / With Beauty And Sorrow (1965) Masahiro Shinoda, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Kaga, Sô Yamamura, Drama, Romance
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 at the same time. Much later Ôki had become a famous writer, not least because of a novel about this love story. Otoko had become a famous painter. But she had never overcome the double early trauma and had become a Lesbian. Her favourite student and beloved one was the beautiful Keiko. 24 years after the early love Ôki goes from Tokyo to Kyoto to meet Otoko. The meeting is polite with secret emotional shadows. Keiko makes a plan. She intends to seduce Ôki, become pregnant, bear Ôki’s child and give it to Otoko. She hopes that Otoko may thereby get rid of her trauma. But she also wants to take her revenge on the man who had harmed her beloved. Secretly she gets acquainted with Ôki’s son, invites him to Kyoto and seduces him. Then she calls his parents and tells that he had promised to marry her.
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