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Japanese film director
A.K.A.
Yaguchi Shinobu
矢口史靖
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Place of birth
Isehara, Japan
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GeminiAge
57 years
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Biography
Shinobu Yaguchi (矢口 史靖, Yaguchi Shinobu, born 30 May 1967) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.He specializes in feel-good "zero to hero" films, where a group of people take up an unlikely activity, face a number of obstacles, but finally succeed. His film Waterboys was particularly successful and led to a TV series which entered its third season in 2005. He was awarded Best Screenplay at the 2005 Yokohama Film Festival for his film Swing Girls.
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| Year | Title | Story | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | '"Rain Woman"(Ameonna) | The anarchic misadventures of two girls. | Comedy |
| 1993 | Down the Drain (Hadashi no Pikunikku) | After trying to use her friend's train pass, schoolgirl Junko (Noburu Iguchi) experiences a series of misadventures as she makes her way through a less-than-friendly depiction of modern Japan. | Black comedy |
| 1996 | Bird Watching | Short film | |
| 1997 | My Secret Cache (Himitsu no hanazono) | Bank teller Sakiko Suzuki (Naomi Nishida) experiences a series of bad luck as she chases her money through her hometown. Not to be confused with the 2007 TV series. | Comedy |
| 1999 | Adrenaline Drive (Adorenarin doraibu) | Nerdy clerk Suzuki (Masanobu Andō)'s car bumps into another car and finds himself facing Kuroiwa (Kirina Mano), who turns out to be a gangster. And so begins a crazy chase that will soon gain him adventure, confidence, and love with a shy nurse. | Black comedy |
| 1999 | One Piece! | The rules: directors must create a short film without using any camera movement or editing. A story has to be told in "one piece" of celluloid. Not to be confused with the anime series. | Short film |
| 2001 | Waterboys | Based on a true event that chronicles five boys' attempts to form a synchronized swimming team at their high school. The film's success sparked a TV spin-off, its TV sequel and a two-part TV special. | Comedy |
| 2002 | Parco Fiction | Toru struggles with the madcap fall-out of an environmental matter that somehow lands in his convenience store. | Comedy |
| 2004 | Swing Girls | Based on a true story of high school girls' efforts to form a traditional jazz band in rural Yamagata prefecture. | Comedy |
| 2008 | Happy Flight | Pilots, flight attendants and passengers struggle to cope with a number of misadventures during their Japan-Hawaii flight. | Comedy |
| 2012 | Robo-G | Three employees of the Kimura Electrical Company are due to present a new robot to an important exhibition. | Comedy |
| 2014 | Wood Job! | A young man decides to join a forestry training program. | Comedy |
| 2017 | Survival Family | Comedy | |
| 2019 | Dance with Me | Musical comedy |
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