Masahiro Shinoda
Masahiro Shinoda (篠田 正浩 Shinoda Masahiro, born March 9, 1931 in Gifu, Gifu, Japan) is a Japanese film director, originally associated with the Shochiku Studio, who came to prominence as part of the Japanese New Wave in the 1960s. He is married to the actress Shima Iwashita, who appears in several of his films, such as 1969's Double Suicide. His 1986 film Gonza the Spearman was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution. He won the 1991 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for Childhood Days. He retired from directing after the release of Spy Sorge in 2003, a biopic on the life of Richard Sorge.
Himiko
(Producer)
Pale Flower
(Director)
Double Suicide
(Director)
Samurai Spy
(Director)
Double Suicide
(Writer)
Takeshi: Childhood Days
(Director)
Captive's Island
(Director)
Silence
(Director)
Himiko
(Writer)
Himiko
(Director)
Assassination
(Director)
Silence
(Screenplay)
Gonza the Spearman
(Director)
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
(Director)
Sharaku
(Screenplay)
Killers on Parade
(Director)
Youth in Fury
(Director)
Demon Pond
(Director)
A Flame at the Pier
(Director)
The Petrified Forest
(Director)
Ballad of Orin
(Director)
Owls' Castle
(Writer)
Owls' Castle
(Director)
Sharaku
(Director)
One Way Ticket to Love
(Director)
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
(Director)
Love New and Old
(Director)
Moonlight Serenade
(Director)
Our Marriage
(Director)
Our Marriage
(Screenplay)
With Beauty and Sorrow
(Director)
Pale Flower
(Screenplay)
Spy Sorge
(Director)
MacArthur's Children
(Director)
Island of the Evil Spirits
(Director)
The Dancer
(Director)
Silence
(Production Design)
Allusion: Reincarnation Story
(Director)
Spy Sorge
(Writer)
Epitaph to My Love
(Director)
Sapporo Winter Olympics
(Director)
Spy Sorge
(Producer)
The Dancer
(Screenplay)
Ballad of Orin
(Screenplay)
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
(Screenplay)
Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky
(Screenplay)
Double Suicide
(Producer)
Captive's Island
(Editor)
Glory on the Summit
(Director)
One Way Ticket to Love
(Screenplay)
Epitaph to My Love
(Screenplay)
Tokyo Twilight
(Assistant Director)
Sharaku
(Editor)
Clouds at Sunset
(Director)
A Flame at the Pier
(Screenplay)