Best movies of Masahiro Shinoda

Actors : Takashi Fujiki, Mariko Kaga, Naoki Sugiura, Ryô Ikebe,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.

Actors : Shizue Kawarazaki, Shima Iwashita, Tokie Hidari, Kichiemon Nakamura,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A doomed love between a paper merchant and a courtesan.

Actors : Minoru Hodaka, Jun Hamamura, Hiroshi Aoyama, Osamu Hitomi,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

The legendary samurai Sasuke Sarutobi gets caught in a web of political intrigue, deception and espionage during the early 17th century.

Actors : David Lampson, Mako, Don Kenny, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

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

Actors : Isao Kimura, Eiji Okada, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

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.

Actors : Hiroko Isayama, Kô Nishimura, Shima Iwashita, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A mountain man captures a beautiful, but a manipulative city woman and goes to excessive lengths to please her every whim.

Actors : Katsuhisa Yamazaki, Noritake Kobinata, Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Horioka,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

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 Tokyo)...

Actors : Kaoru Yachigusa, Sô Yamamura, Mariko Kaga, Kei Yamamoto,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

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 ...

Actors : Furankî Sakai, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tsurutarô Kataoka, Shima Iwashita,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal...

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Kippei Shîna, Takaya Kamikawa, Iain Glen,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

Actors : Rie Yokoyama, Shima Iwashita, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Masao Kusakari,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk.

Actors : Gô Katô, Tamasaburô Bandô, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kôji Nanbara,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

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 real love. A classical tale which translates ...

Actors : Yoshiyuki Omori, Shiori Sakura, Takaya Yamauchi, Masako Natsume,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

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 ...

Actors : Ikuko Asô, Toshimi Hiramatsu, Shima Iwashita, Jôji Hosoda,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

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 for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters...

Actors : Takaya Kamikawa, Riona Hazuki, Mayu Tsuruta, Kiichi Nakai,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

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, killing every man, woman and child he found in...

Actors : Kayoko Honoo, Yûsuke Kawazu, Shima Iwashita, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A young journalist turns to an assassin for help when a team of hired killers comes gunning for her.

Actors : Rie Yokoyama, Shima Iwashita, Kirin Kiki, Tomoko Naraoka,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on people's behavior.

Actors : Shôhei Hino, Shima Iwashita, Misako Tanaka, Hiromi Gô,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

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 perform the tea ...

Actors : Tamotsu Hayakawa, Takashi Fujiki, Mariko Kaga, Kôji Nanbara,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was responsible for saving his life as a baby, he...