Shinobu Yaguchi (矢口史靖 Yaguchi Shinobu) is a Japanese director, editor, cinematographer and screenwriter. To date he has written all the screenplays for the films he directs and vice versa. He won Best Screenplay at the Japanese Academy Awards in 2005 for his film Swing Girls. Earlier in his career he was known for writing and directing films in which the main protagonists discovered large sums of cash and found themselves stuck in various sticky situations because of it. Recently, however, he has branched out and worked on a wider variety of material while still sticking to his understated comedy roots.
Profile[]
- Name: Shinobu Yaguchi (矢口史靖 Yaguchi Shinobu)
- Birth date: May 30, 1967
- Birthplace: Isehara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Filmography[]
As writer / director[]
- [1993] Down the Drain
- [1996] Bird Watching (short)
- [1997] My Secret Cache
- [1999] Adrenaline Drive
- [1999] One Piece!
- [2001] Waterboys
- [2002] Parco Fiction
- [2004] Swing Girls
- [2007] Tokyo Rhapsody
- [2008] Happy Flight
As actor[]
- [1998] French Dressing ... Convenience store employee
External Links[]
- Shinobu Yaguchi at the Internet Movie Database
- Shinobu Yaguci at Nippon Cinema
- Shinobu Yaguchi at Wikipedia
- Shinobu Yaguchi at Japanese Wikipedia
- Shinobu Yaguchi interview at indiWIRE