Masahiro Shinoda

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Assassination review by A customer from Dumfries, Scotland

Period political thriller 20 June 2006
...at country's story. This particular film was considered by many in Japan to be Masahiro Shinoda's finest achievement. The story begins with the events of 1853 when Perry's 4 ... Read customer review

Silence review by from North Cornelly, South Wales

Surprisingly universal and still powerful 30 March 2009
...Masahiro Shinoda’s films have recently been given a ‘season’ in New York and new audienceds have come to watch and find out about these films. There is plenty to see here – the... Read customer review

Gonza The Spearman on DVD (1986)
Starring: Shohei Hino, Misako Tanaka, Hiromi Go
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
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One of the key works of Masahiro Shinoda [Double Suicide], Gonza the Spearman is an adaptation of a bunraku, or puppet theatre play, by the famous writer Chikamatsu. This 1717 tale of doomed love is transferred to the screen in a glorious visual presentation that seems to quote prints, scrolls and ..read more »

52% from 98 members

Ballad of Orin (1977)
Starring: Shima Iwashita, Yoshio Harada, Tomoko Naraoka
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
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Orin is a blind travelling musician who’s expected to remain celibate. However, when she gets raped her traveling music troupe throws her out for allowing it to happen. Now on her own, she pairs up with an anti-militarist man she meets. Vulnerable, she makes it fairly obvious she’s open to a sexual ..read more »

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Silence on DVD (1971)
Starring: Shima Iwashita, Yoshi Kato, Don Kenny
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
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Adapted from the renowned novel by Shusaku Endo, Masahiro Shinoda's 1971 film Silence (Chinmoku, co-written with Endo) explores the violent cultural conflict amid the arrival of Jesuit missionaries in seventeenth-century Japan. Shinoda's excellent direction - coupled with a pensive score by the ..read more »

63% from 254 members

Double Suicide (1969)
Starring: Kamatari Fujiwara, Tokie Hidari, Shima Iwashita
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
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A presentation of an ultimately tragic love affair between a prostitute and a married merchant, based on and played out in the style of an 18th-century Banraku puppet play by Monzaemon Chikamatsu. Winner of the Japanese Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actress.

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Assassination on DVD (1964)
Starring: Tetsuro Tamba, Eiji Okada, Eitaro Ozawa
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
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The story of Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" - the foreign steamboats of Commander Matthew Perry - anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political maneuvering that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The film follows Tetsuro Tamba, an ..read more »

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Gonza The Spearman - 2.5 stars
Ballad of Orin - 2.5 stars
Silence - 3.0 stars
Double Suicide - 3.0 stars
Assassination - 3.5 stars

Assassination - 3.5 stars
Silence - 3.0 stars
Gonza The Spearman - 2.5 stars
Double Suicide - 3.0 stars
Ballad of Orin - 2.5 stars

Ballad of Orin - 2.5 stars
Double Suicide - 3.0 stars
Gonza The Spearman - 2.5 stars
Silence - 3.0 stars
Assassination - 3.5 stars

Shima Iwashita - 3 times - show films
Tetsuro Tamba - 2 times - show films
Mako - 1 times - show films
Shohei Hino - 1 times - show films
Yoshio Harada - 1 times - show films