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Shinji Aoyama (July 13, 1964 - March 25, 2022) was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, composer, film critic, and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka.
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06 August 2001
A 2001 Japanese language film directed by Shinji Aoyama, starring Hidetoshi Nishijima. The film screened at Locarno International Film Festival in 2009.
05 April 1997
An ex-boxer working for a game parlor owner gets caught up in a complex blackmail operation he doesn't understand.
15 June 2001
Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe falls ill.
20 January 2001
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
17 December 2011
Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his films, has been executed by his own yakuza gang for failing to repay his debts.
28 February 2015
An omnibus recorded in a short film by five film directors with the motif of the song "Kai Band".
23 January 1999
Having fallen into a coma following a car accident at 14, Yutaka wakes ten years later and realizes that his family is no longer intact: father, mother and sister live at different places, so he decides to reopen the farm that his family once ran.
03 July 1999
Rika, a bright, attractive, and driven young woman, is intent on marrying her dreamy boyfriend Seiichi Ono who is not only tall and handsome but also an up-and-coming executive.
16 June 1992
An ex sumo wrestler turned corporate security guard goes on a murderous rampage at his place of employment.
08 September 2007
Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home.
07 September 2013
Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing his father's predilections for abuse, Toma becomes anxious that he will have inherited those urges.
22 April 1995
Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.
04 May 2026
A detective and his partner track down a call girl with information about a drug cartel. After taking her into custody, they are attacked by cartel members.
29 March 2020
One day, Ezawa Jun, who has trouble with work and in love, gets a ryukin from a goldfish scooping game at a festival.
01 December 1995
Pinku film adapted from popular adult comic series “Not in the textbooks!”. This direct-to-video “v-cinema” is the directorial debut of Shinji Aoyama.
16 June 2015
A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Philippe-Emmanuel Sorlin, originally aired 16 June 2015.
22 January 2005
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam with the help of a private tutor.
11 January 2003
12-part omnibus made under the rules: "the main character is a detective" "at least one gag per min"
23 October 2020
In the time after Naomi's parents suddenly die, she happens to meet and bond with the popular actor Morinori Tokito who lives in the same apartment building.
23 November 2006
Kaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live a peaceful life in a house on the coast.
06 July 1996
Masayuki meets Nanami, who is on a journey with a refrigerator named Ullie. Nanami's Iranian friend Amir is helping her haul the refrigerator which contains Nanami's dead boyfriend.
27 April 2013
Set towards the end of World War II, Nomura (Masatoshi Nagase) is a writer who is in despair. A woman works in bar and is a former prostitute.
22 April 1994
A convicted rapist, Ikuo is released from prison and goes in pursuit of the woman he raped, Mieko. So obsessed is he with revenge he sees her in every woman he meets.
11 December 1999
In a near future where allergies have become an epidemic, music producer Haru half-heartedly dates post office clerk and mail thief Michi.
19 June 2001
A successful businessman and his alcoholic wife attempt to piece together their unhappy lives and shattered marriage.
11 August 2001
Kenji Nakagami, one of the most notable Japanese writers of the post-war, died in 1992. His work reveals a strong connection to his homeland, Kishu: a mountainous region that connects to the Pacific Ocean through a river.
01 September 1995
In Japanese theater, women's roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman's role, the Onnagata, does not imitate the woman, as in the West, but tries to capture her significance.
12 August 1995
Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward for his capture.
18 May 2005
A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures.
22 December 2011
An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema.
17 June 2011
Koji, a university student and budding photographer, is asked by a man to secretly take pictures of his wife Yurika.
20 December 1997
Police detective Sosuke is shot down while chasing down a suspect. While he is unconscious, his gun is stolen.
27 July 1996
Yasuo is a gangster just released from jail. Believing his boss double-crossed him, enraged Yasuo is on his way to find the boss.
01 January 2001
Aoyama Shinji’s Film History—and simultaneously a chronicle of modern Japanese history—layers together images of present-day landscapes, newsreels, and photographs of Emperor Shōwa as well as of Kōtoku Shūsui and Sugako Kanno, who were executed in the High Treason Incident, with readings of texts by Nakano Shigeharu (Five-Shao of Sake, Shinagawa Station in the Rain) and Natsume Sōseki (Recollections).
22 December 1995
When a woman whose job is to professionally date men disappears suddenly, a TV crew who wanted to film a documentary about women like her begin searching for her.
19 March 2003
Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigious family, from a mysterious commune in the forest.
14 May 2011
Three stories, depicted in three different styles, unfold in three locations: "Kyoto", a lyrical improvised drama based on documentar y footage following local rappers, which is blended with fiction; "Okinawa", a documentary about intriguing characters who Yamamoto met by chance; and " Tokyo", an otherworldly love story about a man dealing with loss who drifts through life, and a woman who pretends to be his deceased wife.
01 January 2003
Akihiro, who lives in an old apartment building in Tokyo, makes songs and sings on the streets; Fei, a street musician who makes a living making a living by making the Iranian traditional instrument 'Daf', but does not neglect to play every night; A film director who travels around Seoul with a digital camera .
01 January 1999
Video documentary by Shinji Aoyama.
30 July 1999
Miyako, a young female embalmer, is called to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide.
21 December 1996
Centering on a young drifter almost casually drawn into violence--a crime drama about a boy and a man equally ill-equipped for criminal life and straight society.
12 December 2006
"AA" is a documentary about Akira Aida (mostly known as Aquirax Aida), a japanese music critic who introduced free jazz, improvisation, and progressive rock to Japan.
01 January 1996
This film project was made in 1996 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cinema.
21 March 2025
Two brothers start working as benshi narrators of silent films in a cinema in the early 20th century.
06 August 2014
An ensemble drama opens with the son of a celebrated actress staging his own play for his mother and her lover, a popular writer, at a lakeside home.
17 December 2016
Those who want to die seek refuge in a mysterious café in this feverishly strange Japanese debut.
27 February 2004
Rinken Band represents the Okinawan pop music world. Director Aoyama Shinji (Eureka), one of those attracted to the band, focuses on the band's vocalist, Uehara Tomoko, in this documentary.
07 August 2013
K, a projectionist, is taken to a lakeside deep in the mountains. There, in a place called “The Dog House”, he finds Professor Shiny in an electrified helmet and his daughter, who is now a corpse.
23 August 2008
The anthology film R246 Story centers around the major Japanese highway Route 246. Originating in Chiyoda Ward's Miyakezaka district, the 122.
31 July 2002
Directed by Shinji Aoyama, this NHK documentary follows avant-garde jazz trumpeter Toshinori Kondo as he traces the footsteps of the poet Matsuo Bashō.
26 April 2003
The main character Akihiko lives in an old apartment. He plays the guitar and sings his own pieces on the street, but this cannot be called his dream.
01 January 2008
Delphine is twenty years old. She is too young to have experienced the activism of the seventies, but for her it is not something that belongs to the past.
09 April 2008
An overview of the life and work of legendary Japanese filmmaker Kijû Yoshida, a notable figure of the Japanese New Wave.
11 January 2003
Shinji Aoyama’s short film follows an unlikely pair of detectives—played by Susumu Terajima and filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa—as they navigate a quirky case with deadpan seriousness.
07 August 2003
In modern-day Kanazawa, writer Tokuda Shūsei returns to his hometown and is quietly drawn to Okine, the daughter of a fading inn.
30 September 2001
A rare document of Phew’s shifting musical journey across more than two decades. Featuring archival live footage of her legendary late-70s band Aunt Sally, her punk project MOST with Seiichi Yamamoto, and performances with Dowser as Big Picture, the film interweaves interviews that reflect on her evolving career.
12 August 2015
Joe, a stuntman burdened with a past he wants to keep hidden, suffers a serious injury during a stunt.
31 July 2005
The film opens with distant shots of wind power plants, followed by a Pink Floyd song, and then focuses on a simple yet evocative image: a bonfire on the beach at night.
04 October 2003
TRUNK, also known as WebCINEMA TRUNK, is a three-part short film directed by Shinji Aoyama. Released online as part of an experimental web cinema project and a marketing campaign, it follows an office worker who becomes entangled in a series of unexpected events involving theft, abduction, and pursuit across shifting urban and international settings.
