Director
Masahiro Shinoda
95 years · Gifu, Gifu, Japan · 37 films
Masahiro Shinoda (篠田 正浩 Shinoda Masahiro, March 9, 1931 – March 25, 2025) was 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 married 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.
Best known for
Funeral Parade of Roses
1969 · Actor
On Kanopy
Pale Flower
1964 · Director, Screenplay
Double Suicide
1969 · Director, Writer
On Criterion Channel
Samurai Spy
1965 · Director
On Criterion Channel
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
1975 · Director, Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
Silence
1971 · Director, Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
Filmography 37
Masahiro Shinoda on 'The Human Condition'
2009 · Self
Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky
2007 · Screenplay
Spy Sorge
2003 · Director, Producer
Owls' Castle
1999 · Director, Screenplay
Moonlight Serenade
1997 · Director
On Criterion Channel
Sharaku
1995 · Screenplay, Director
Masaki Kobayashi on 'The Human Condition'
1993 · Self
Takeshi: Childhood Days
1990 · Director
The Dancer
1989 · Director, Screenplay
Gonza the Spearman
1986 · Director
On Criterion Channel
Allusion: Reincarnation Story
1985 · Director
MacArthur's Children
1984 · Director
Island of the Evil Spirits
1981 · Director
Demon Pond
1979 · Director
Ballad of Orin
1977 · Director, Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
1975 · Director, Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
Himiko
1974 · Producer, Director
On Criterion Channel
The Petrified Forest
1973 · Director
On Criterion Channel
Sapporo Winter Olympics
1972 · Director
On Criterion Channel
Silence
1971 · Director, Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
1970 · Director
Funeral Parade of Roses
1969 · Actor
On Kanopy
Double Suicide
1969 · Director, Writer
On Criterion Channel
Clouds at Sunset
1967 · Director