Shinobu Yaguchi

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1967-05-30 (58 years old)

Place of Birth

Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan

Shinobu Yaguchi

Biography

Shinobu Yaguchi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He specializes in feel-good "zero to hero" films, where a group of people take up an unlikely activity, face a number of obstacles, but finally succeed.[citation needed] His film Waterboys was particularly successful and led to a TV series which entered its third season in 2005. He was awarded Best Screenplay at the 2005 Yokohama Film Festival for his film Swing Girls.

Acting

Production

2001

Waterboys

as Director

2001

Waterboys

as Screenplay

1999

Adrenaline Drive

as Director

1999

2004

Swing Girls

as Director

2008

Happy Flight

as Director

1996

Bird Watching

as Director

1997

My Secret Cache

as Director

1997

2012

Robo-G

as Director

2012

Robo-G

as Screenplay

1993

Down the Drain

as Director

2014

Wood Job!

as Director

2014

Wood Job!

as Screenplay

2001

Waterboys

as Director of Photography

2008

Happy Flight

as Writer

2007

Tokyo Rhapsody

as Director

1990

The Rain Women

as Director

1990

2002

Parco Fiction

as Director

2002

Parco Fiction

as Writer

2016

Survival Family

as Director

2016

Survival Family

as Screenplay

2001

Waterboys

as Producer

1993

Down the Drain

as Screenplay

1993

2019

Dance with Me

as Writer

2019

Dance with Me

as Director

2004

Swing Girls

as Screenplay

1999

2025

Dollhouse

as Director

2025

Dollhouse

as Screenplay

1990

The Rain Women

as Director of Photography

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