Tetsuo Shinohara
Tetsuo Shinohara (篠原 哲雄, Shinohara Tetsuo, born 9 February 1962 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese film director. His film First Love was the 3rd Best Film at the 22nd Yokohama Film Festival.
Works
Beside the Hearth at Alice-san's House
Alice returns to her hometown after ten years to live in a farmhouse with an irori hearth, where shared meals and moments help rekindle a bond with a childhood friend.
Release Date2025-01-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count4
Bungo Japanese Literature Cinema
Six riveting short episodes that have been adapted from original literary short novel classics from famed authors.
Release Date2010-02-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Jam Films
Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.
Release Date2002-12-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count23
The Tomb & the Divorce
Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male friend at her leather-working class, Yoshinori has a fit. This is on top of the myriad of odd clients that he must appease.
Release Date1993-07-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
High School Girl's Friend
Genichiro, a lonely retired man living with his son’s family who mostly ignores him, feels closest to his granddaughter who is in highschool. Through her, Genichiro meets another high school girl, Mina, who also feels ignored by her family. She is also troubled by her friend’s pregnancy and the bankruptcy of her father’s company. Unlike her friends, Mina has an ungilded view of life and finds herself comforted by Genichiro’s wisdom. Genichiro likewise is happy to be making a difference in someone’s life.
Release Date2001-07-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Desire
Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and dumb lust, and the world-weary woman drowning in a sea of men that works with him. This is a fantastic new film from a remarkably skilled cast about "the beauty of sensualism."
Release Date2005-11-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Flower and Sword
In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age of war is about to end, but Hideyoshi Toyotomi's rule makes life difficult for the people. Monk Senko Ikenobo is a master of flower arrangement. He prays for peace in the world and tries to give hope to the people with flower arrangement. He becomes good friends with Rikyu. Rikyu is a monk and a politician. He has the most profound influence on chanoyu. Rikyu is forced to commit hara-kiri by Hideyoshi Toyotomi’s order. Monk Senko Ikenobo challenges Hideyoshi Toyotomi.
Release Date2017-06-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Karaoke Terror
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer and it escalates!
Release Date2003-11-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count13
Female
'Female' is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Shinohara, Ryuichi Hiroki, Miwa Nishikawa, and Suzuki Matsuo.
Release Date2005-05-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Battle Under Orion
The story of a Japanese sub's last mission during WWII.
Release Date2009-06-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
The Cherry Orchard
At an all-girls school, a group of girls prepare for a stage performance of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".
Release Date1990-11-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count10
Mokuyo Kumikyoku
A closed-room mystery where five women gathered in memory of a mysteriously dead female writer to unravel the mystery behind her death. Based on the novel of the same name by Riku Onda, directed by Tetsuo Shinohara. Four years ago, an actress/novelist died of overdose. Since then, five women who were her friends gather around once every year to recollect her memories. However this year, they receive flowers with a strange message which insinuates that her death could have been a murder.
Release Date2002-10-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Principal: Am I In a Love Story?
After her parents divorced, Shima Sumitomo lived with her mother. She felt uncomfortable living with her stepfather and she was unable to hang out with people at her high school. Shima Sumitomo decides to move to Hokkaido where her father lives. At her new high school in Hokkaido, she meets classmate Gen Tatebayashi and Wao Sakurai. They are the two most popular boys at her school. A principle of her school is that "Gen and Wao are for everyone." If anyone breaks the rule, that person will be ostracized. Even so, Shima Sumitomo gets closer to Gen and Wao.
Release Date2018-03-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count11
Heaven's Bookstore
Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites Kenta to work with him, and the next thing he knows, Kenta wakes up to find himself in a room he has never been in before. It is a strange room that seems to have no connection to life. He descends a staircase to find many shelves of books.
Release Date2004-06-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count14
Terminal
The masterpiece of Shino Sakuragi, who won the 149th Naoki Prize for "HOTEL ROYAL" in 2013, is now a motion picture. A lawyer burdened with an inexpiable sin, and an accused woman who seals her past and keeps it a secret. In Kushiro, Hokkaido, the pair who chose a faraway town as the terminal station of their lives encounters and develops a moving drama by starting new lives. Koichi Sato enters new territory his performance, while Tsubasa Honda plays a serious character which creates a new image for herself. Machiko Ono, Shidou Nakamura, Shigeru Izumiya and other talented cast members join in the film.
Release Date2015-11-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count14
Bakayarō! 4 You!
Release Date1991-09-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count1
Wait Offshore
"Colleagues who started at the same time as you" - something that seems special but is actually known by many people. A bond that is neither friendship nor romantic love, but trust. A coming-of-age work movie set in Fukuoka, filled with tears, hardships, and conflicts as rookie office workers!
Release Date2026-05-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
School Day of the Dead
Some students decide to set up a play written by one of their classmates, who has commited suicide. The play is based on a tragic and mysterious legend about a love affair between two teachers at the school long ago. Some girls then accidentally stumble over some information about the legend, and the girl who commited suicide. Shortly after, the girls start turning up dead in seeming accidents.
Release Date2000-08-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count13
First Love
This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with a malignant stomach ulcer, Sataka is left alone with her emotionally repressed father; whiling away the hours one day, she comes across a love letter written to her mother 24 years earlier. Deciding to track down the letter's author, Sataka eventually finds Shinichiro (Hiroyuki Sanada), an overweight slob who was abandoned by his wife years earlier and now spends his time hanging around pachinko parlors. Determined to clean him up and reintroduce him to her mother, Sataka nags Shinchiro until he finally agrees to her demands, and a gradual friendship develops between the two as Sataka drags him to the gym and a clothing store. But once Shinchiro's makeover is complete, he turns the tables on his young friend, and when the time comes for him to meet Sataka's mother, all concerned parties find themselves embarking on a new phase in their lives.
Release Date2000-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Riding the Metro
Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.
Release Date2006-10-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Inubu: The Dog Club
Hanai Sota is 22-years-old and a university student in the veterinary department. Since he was little, he has always loved animals. His apartment is full of animals that needed help. One day, Hanai Sota saves a dog that was being used in experiments. To save more of the animals, he sets up the "Inubu" club. His friend Shibasaki Ryosuke, among other people, joins the group. Shibasaki Ryosuke also loves dogs and is a student in the same veterinary department as Hanai Sota. They work hard to protect the animals. 16 years later, a report comes out. The report is about Hanai Sota, who was arrested.
Release Date2021-07-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Shadowfall
Typically thieves enter a house, steal things and get out. This time an unsuspecting thief enters a home to steal as much as he can and instead is faced with an occupant inside the house. There is a woman within who is going to commit a murder. She is also about to set the place ablaze. The thief stops her and in the process the criminal becomes the one stopping a crime. The situation is connected to a case from some twenty years go.
Release Date2019-11-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
At River's Edge
A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with his own younger sister. As a loyal samurai he has to accept the mission even though he has inner conflicts.
Release Date2011-08-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Yamazakura, The Cherry Tree in the Hills
Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor), the film depicts the uneasy life of Noe Isomura (Rena Tanaka) with the difficult family she has married into after her former husband passed away. One day as she tries to brake off a branch of a cherry tree, she is aided by a samurai who she does not recognize but who recognizes her. He turns out to be a former suitor that she never met named Yaichiro Tezuka (Noriyuki Higashiyama) and who teaches swordsmanship to the local samurai. Meanwhile, the powerful new chief retainer of the village enacts land policies that threaten the survival of the local farmers.
Release Date2008-05-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
CLEARNESS
Sakura is a 20-year-old college student who has sex for money to fund her shopping addiction. After her customers leave her apartment, she spends her time spying on Leo, a young, beautiful, and (dyed) blond-haired boy, who works at a male escort service across the street. One day, Leo pays her a visit, and so starts an unlikely friendship. But Leo has a troubled past. He is the son of a prostitute who worked for his current pimp and died before she could repay money that she owed. He himself entered the business when he graduated from junior high school. Though Leo refuses to make love to Sakura (he has a policy of not having sex outside of work), the two fall in love and become inseparable until Leo gets into a fight with Sakura's boyfriend and gets him into a car accident. Leo turns himself in, and Sakura moves to Okinawa to wait for him at their dream destination.
Release Date2008-02-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A Sower of Seeds 2
Release Date2015-05-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Stake Out
The fourth chapter in the Love Cinema series, is a story of a cloistered and obsessive character who is confining and closed. When many suicides occur in an apartment building the police are by to question a female resident.
Release Date2001-01-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Breathe In, Breathe Out
Breathe In, Breathe Out centers on six, later seven, individuals who have gotten jobs harvesting sugarcane on a small Okinawa island. Each worker has their own unique personality as well as their own issues as they learn to work together...
Release Date2004-05-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Inochi
Yu Miri is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka, decides to help raise him.
Release Date2002-09-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
One More Time, One More Chance
A romance that takes place one summer in the countryside between an out-of-job musician, Hanabi, and a girl, Hibana.
Release Date1996-12-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Eau de Vie
Release Date2003-02-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Sweetheart Chocolate
A tragic love story involving three main characters and spanning two decades. Yue Lin is an exchange student from Shanghai who meets a ski patrol member, in Yubari, Hokkaido.
Release Date2012-10-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
What Can I Do for You
Takase, a fledgling recording engineer, visits Miyakojima Island in Okinawa for a documentary program. There he meets violinist Yohko and is attracted to her. She participates in the filming as a reporter despite the fact that she has a boyfriend with whom she communicates via e-mail. However, she has an unusual relationship with the artist Kijima. This coming-of-age film delicately depicts the protagonist's personal growth with a documentary touch, incorporating descriptions of the climate of Miyako Island and the actual people who weave the Miyako Kamifu cloth.
Release Date1999-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
To Pen a Book
A protagonist, Tetsuhiro is on a journey to overcome writer’s block that was caused by the tragedy of a small village he wrote about in his bestselling novel. Simultaneously, he visits his favorite book shops, meets with his friends and encounters new people so to ease his emotional pain. From Tochigi, then to Kyoto and finally in Kagawa, he finds his own bestselling book during his journey, but will this give him an answer to the reason why he could not write any more?
Release Date2024-10-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Walking with My Grandma
Natsumi is proposed to by Yamato, a man who aims to become a fisherman to succeed his father. Her grandmother Kiyo, who raised her since a young age, broke her legs and uses a wheelchair now. Kiyo lives in a facility where Natsumi visits to tell her about the wedding. Natsumi suggests the idea of Kiyo walking along the wedding aisle with her, which encourages the week Kiyo. With that mindset, Kiyo regains hope and try to get better with the help of Natsumi
Release Date2018-04-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Happiness
Yukio Kunikida and Yuma Yamagishi are high school students and they are dating with each other. On an ordinary day, Yuma tells Yukio that "I'm going to die in a week." She knows that her illness has progressed and has accepted the fact that her days are numbered. She wants to live the rest of her days being true to herself. Yukio finds it difficult to accept that Yuma has just a short time left to live, but he occupies himself fulfilling her wishes.
Release Date2024-05-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Work on the Grass
Two boys are starting their work day together. Their job is to cut the grass of a large field. One is a seasoned professional who has been doing this work for quite a while, the other a first-day temp who missed the introduction classes. The start of their day is pretty rough, but as they get to talking, they slowly develop a bond.
Release Date1993-11-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Beyond Winter
The story of five people who work at a mountain hut on Mount Nasu until spring. The ski resort where they work every year has been closed... A young woman who feels inferior to her family works tirelessly in a lotus root field, getting her entire body dirty, while the second son of a dairy farmer hesitates to take over the family business. A young man who grew up in an orphanage and a girl who witnessed her father's suicide. A story of renewal where the townspeople warmly support them.
Release Date2026-06-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Washing Machine
Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a used electrical appliance store where he works part-time as a store keeper and repairman. One day, a woman comes to the store drenched from the rain. She is Setsuko, the only daughter of the store's president and a returnee. Since then, Setsuko often comes to the store. Kizaki becomes concerned about Setsuko, but Setsuko has something to do with Oshi, a senior who used to work at the store...
Release Date1999-04-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Onmyōji
Release Date2020-03-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Healing Heart ~How to Love Yourself~
Rina Ichinose starts a busy work life at an advertising agency right after graduation. But the job doesn't go well and she has to work overtime every day. The nagging from her father after she goes back home drains her physically and mentally. So she resigns from the agency. Rina meets a charismatic therapist Karen at a job fair. Attracted by her vigor, Rina decides to become a therapist. But things do not go well at the beginning and she even infuriates a male customer, the former professional baseball player Usui. Usui was a preeminent professional baseball player but his contract was terminated by the club due to the sequela caused by a dead ball hit. Rina tries every means to help him come back to the field as a baseball player.
Release Date2020-07-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
An Evil Floral
Kenichiro Tsushima was swept up in a drug scandal and effectively erased from the entertainment industry. Having changed his name and set up his own talent agency, he stops at nothing to bring down the stars of major agencies. Yoko, who is commissioned by him to work as a ghostwriter, finds herself drawn to him despite sensing something dangerous about him.
Release Date1997-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Night of Whirlwind Restaurant
Night after night, eccentric regulars gather at a quaint eating house located in the corner of a crossing in Tsukifune-cho
Release Date2009-11-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Distorted Desire
Original Video film directed by Tetsuo Shinohara
Release Date1995-07-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Jinsei no Kigaekata
> Story 1: "Missing" > Story 2: "Miss Ringo" (ミスりんご) > Story 3: "Tea Brewer" (お茶をつぐ) Raita is a deaf boy who has just lost his father. His father wanted him to succeed his tea shop, but Raita didn't want to because his relationship with his father was not good. While he was closing the tea shop, Teiji, who is a genius tea blender, came to the shop and challenged Raita to compete on blending the regendally tea which Raita's father was famous for.
Release Date2022-03-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
RUNNING HIGH
A man on his way home from a wedding. When he wakes up drunk, he finds himself in a park in the early morning. As he wanders the city in the early morning, he meets a girl on a mountain bike and is suddenly chased by the police instead of the girl. The camera, which had been following the lazy, fresh morning air, turns around and starts running away with the man. The police chase him relentlessly. As he struggles to outrun his pursuers, he finds himself becoming increasingly elated. As he runs, he finds himself becoming more and more elated, as if it is the start of a journey away from the boredom of everyday life. The camera work is superb, eloquently capturing the man running with all his might.
Release Date1989-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Tea Brewer
Raita is a deaf boy who has just lost his father. His father wanted him to succeed his tea shop, but Raita didn't want to because his relationship with his father was not good. While he was closing the tea shop, Teiji, who is a genius tea blender, came to the shop and challenged Raita to compete on blending the regendally tea which Raita's father was famous for.
Release Date2021-07-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Turtle-Faced Boy
A man mistaken for a molester begins to delude himself into believing he is actually one, eventually descending into a mental labyrinth. This is Shinohara’s true debut work—an experimental and daring film.
Release Date1984-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector