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Masahiro Shinoda (篠田 正浩, Shinoda Masahiro, born March 9, 1931) is a Japanese retired film director, originally associated with the Shochiku Studio, who came to prominence as part of the Japanese New Wave in the 1960s.
Aug 11, 2015 · Masahiro Shinoda has long been enshrined in the Western canon of great Japanese directors as one of the key figures of the Japanese New Wave. A usual suspect in the writings of such key critical gatekeepers as David Desser, Donald Richie, and Audie Bock, he’s a logical choice for retrospective treatment.
Feb 22, 2023 · Graduating as Ozu's assistant with his debut feature-length at Shochiku in 1960, Masahiro Shinoda (b. 1931) saw the dawn of the Japanese New Wave and rose to prominence alongside the likes of Nagisa Oshima, Yasuzo Masumura, Koreyoshi Kurahara, and Shohei Imamura among a whole host of others.
Masahiro Shinoda is a filmmaker who has made 33 movies, including Double Suicide, Chinmoku and Ballad of Orin. He was born in 1931 in Gifu, Japan, and is married to Shima Iwashita.
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Dec 2, 2016 · Learn about the versatile and vital Japanese auteur Masahiro Shinoda, whose 1971 version of "Silence" set the bar high for Martin Scorsese. Discover his best films, from the pop energy of the New Wave to the meditative historical dramas, on FilmStruck.
Dec 19, 2011 · These films mine a voguish existentialism, even “nihilism” (Shinoda’s term), in stories of rebels who infiltrate closed worlds by submitting to their choreography of violence, their external morality of men and women who are only as good as their their sword-fights, their car races, their rockabilly hip thrusts.
Silence (Japanese: 沈黙, Hepburn: Chinmoku) is a 1971 Japanese historical drama film directed by Masahiro Shinoda, based on the novel of the same name by Shūsaku Endō. It stars Tetsurō Tamba , Mako , Eiji Okada , and Shima Iwashita alongside English actors David Lampson and Don Kenny.
