Shinji AoyamaFilmography

Occupation:
Director, Editor, Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter

  • Sad Vacation

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Eri Ishida, Aoi Miyazaki, Jô Odagiri, Yuka Itaya, Ken Mitsuishi

    Synopsis: A damaged man experiences a series of odd coincidences that send his life careening down a path he never anticipated in director/screenwriter Shinji Aoyama's semi-sequel to his critically acclaimed 2000 drama Eureka. When Kenji was just a young boy, his mother abandoned the family and his father Read More

    2007

  • Koorogi

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: With his enigmatic, cerebral drama Koorogi (aka Crickets), Japanese writer/director Shinji Aoyama pays openly declared homage to one of his influences, the recently deceased Swiss director Daniel Schmid. Laden with symbols and archetypes, the picture concerns Serene Kaoru (Kyoka Suzuki), a young Read More

    2006

  • Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani?

    Crew: Director

    2005

  • Lakeside Murder Case

    Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

    Actors: Koji Yakusho, Hiroko Yakushima, Akira Emoto, Etsushi Toyokawa

    2004

  • Mike Yokohama - A Forest With No Name

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Kyoka Suzuki, Nene Otsuka, Yoshio Harada, Masashi Yamamoto

    Synopsis: Shinji Aoyama's Mike Yokohama - A Forest With No Name is a loose adaptation of the work of Mickey Spillane. Private detective Mike Yokohama (Masatoshi Nagase) is hired by a rich businessman to find his daughter who has joined a commune. Mike goes undercover and joins the secret group, where Read More

    2002

  • Eureka

    Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor, Screen Story, Screenwriter

    Actors: Koji Yakusho, Ken Mitsuishi

    Synopsis: One of the leading voices in the new Japanese cinema, Shinji Aoyama directs this saga about memory, grief, and redemption. Shot in stark black and white, the film opens with the sudden and inexplicably bloody hijacking of a bus in rural Kyushu. The crazed gunman (Riju Go) shoots two passengers in Read More

    5/4/01

  • Desert Moon

    Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

    Actors: Hiroshi Mikami, Isao Natsuyagi

    Synopsis: Following up on his epic masterpiece Eureka, director Shinji Aoyama creates this mediation on spiritual and economic malaise in contemporary Japanese society. Nagai (Hiroshi Mikami) is an American-educated businessman desperately trying to keep his cutting edge software company afloat amid Read More

    2001

  • Chloe

    Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Shinya Tsukamoto, Miyuki Matsuda, Shinji Aoyama

    Synopsis: Veteran actor turned filmmaker Go Riju spins this love story about the beautiful and doomed. Chloe (Rie Tomosaka) meets Kotaro (Masatoshi Nagase) at an art show at a local mall and true to generic form, they fall in love at first sight. At their fashionable wedding attended by a host of Tokyo Read More

    2001

  • Shady Grove

    Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Arata, Wakaba Nakano

    Synopsis: Acclaimed maverick filmmaker Shinji Aoyama departs from his trademark bloody crime films such as his landmark Helpless (1996) to direct a brittle, engrossing romantic drama. Rika (Rei Kurita), a bright, attractive, and driven young woman, is intent on marrying her dreamy boyfriend Seiichi Ono Read More

    1999

  • Embalming

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Tales of the Gimli Hospital meets Michelangelo Antonioni in this bizarre horror flick directed by auteur Shinji Aoyama. Though the act of embalming is quite rare in Japan -- the first Japanese-born embalmer set up shop in 1997 -- Miyako Murakami (Reiko Takashima) makes a living by preserving the Read More

    1999

  • Two Punks

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A courageous but naive boy from one of Japan's smaller islands goes to seek his fortune in Tokyo and ends up involved in Yakuza violence. Yoichi's descent into crime begins after he is befriended by the more worldly Michio who helps his new friend find work in a night club run by the Yakuza. Read More

    1997

  • Tsumetai Chi

    Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor, Screenwriter

    Actors: Ryo Ishibashi, Kazuma Suzuki, Kyoko Tohyama, Eiko Nagashima, Taro Suwa

    Synopsis: Shinji Aoyama (Two Punks) directed this Japanese cop drama about assistant police inspector Saga (Ryo Ishibashi), who is guarding a religious cult leader when the man is shot and killed. In pursuit of the hitman (Yu-rei Yanagi), Saga is also shot, and he's only half-conscious when his gun is Read More

    1997

  • Wild Life

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Following up on his acclaimed Helpless and Chimpura, Shinji Aoyama directs this bizarre reworking of a yakuza flick. Hiroki Sakai (Kosuke Toyohara) adjusts pins in pachinko machines for a living. It's a dull existence, but Sakai seems to have made his peace with it. One day he runs into his former Read More

    1997

  • Helpless

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Tadanobu Asano

    Synopsis: Gen-X auteur Shinji Aoyama directs this brooding gangster flick about alienation, sudden violence, and high school classmates. The film opens with mobster Yasuo (Ken Mitsuishi) getting out of jail only to learn that his gang's don is dead, and that his own future is in doubt. Seething from the bad Read More

    1996

  • Das Geschriebene Gesicht

    Crew: Art Director

    Synopsis: This Japanese-Swiss documentary is a lyrical meditation on the similarities between geishas and the male Kabuki dancers who play females in their traditional plays. Interspersed amongst the interviews of key figures from both fields are long clips of Kabuki performances, and others playing Read More

    1995

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