Masahiro Shinoda

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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.