Masahiro Shinoda Movies

Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Berlin to study in the 1880s and falls in love with...

Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their...

The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.

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

A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand...

A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.

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

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her...

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,...

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

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the...

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

Musical film: Hiromi Go plays a warrior, a gigolo, and an officer spread across a thousand years of history

Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Chiee loses her memory. A romance movie whose...

In this video appreciation, created in 2009, we present filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda’s observations on THE HUMAN CONDITION and director Masaki...

In this 1993 video interview, filmed for the Directors Guild of Japan at Tokyo’s Haiyuza Theatre, director Masaki Kobayashi talks to fellow...