Masahiro Shinoda

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Moonlight Serenade
6.9

Moonlight Serenade

Mar. 15, 1997

Moonlight Serenade

After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II.
Sharaku
6.7

Sharaku

Jun. 02, 1995

Sharaku

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and ...
Demon Pond
7

Demon Pond

Oct. 20, 1979

Demon Pond

Outside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Their story is of revenge, tragedy, and the power of ...
Ballad of Orin
7.4

Ballad of Orin

Nov. 19, 1977

Ballad of Orin

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
Himiko
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Himiko

Mar. 09, 1974

Himiko

The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.
The Petrified Forest
7

The Petrified Forest

Sep. 01, 1973

The Petrified Forest

Follows a young med student’s relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother’s struggle to ...
Captive’s Island
7

Captive’s Island

Jul. 02, 1966

Captive’s Island

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans ...
With Beauty and Sorrow
6.9

With Beauty and Sorrow

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager–and then wrote a bestselling novel about it–reappears in her life, ...
A Flame at the Pier
6.9

A Flame at the Pier

Sep. 30, 1962

A Flame at the Pier

Takashi Fujiki stars as a rebel in this drama about life on the Yokohama waterfront by New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda. The rebel works as an ...
Pale Flower
7.7

Pale Flower

Mar. 01, 1964

Pale Flower

Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, ...
Love New and Old
6.8

Love New and Old

Oct. 11, 1961

Love New and Old

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.
Our Marriage
7

Our Marriage

Mar. 18, 1962

Our Marriage

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
Youth in Fury
6.8

Youth in Fury

Aug. 30, 1960

Youth in Fury

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku’s iconoclastic New Wave. At ...
Tokyo Twilight
8.1

Tokyo Twilight

Apr. 30, 1957

Tokyo Twilight

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
Sapporo Winter Olympics
7.3

Sapporo Winter Olympics

A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.
Double Suicide
7.6

Double Suicide

May. 24, 1969

Double Suicide

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century ...