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Masahiro Shinoda

Japanese film director and screenwriter

6.14body-of-work score · ranked #169 of 2631 directors · 12 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
March 9, 1931 · Gifu
Died
March 25, 2025 · Gifu
Nationality
Japan
Work
film director, screenwriter
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Masahiro Shinoda
キネマ旬報社 · Public domain

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Childhood Days少年時代

    1990 · Japan · drama

    Japan Academy Prize winner 1991 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1990 #2

    1.382 citations
  2. 2
    Double Suicide心中天網島

    1969 · Japan · romance, drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1969 #1 · Criterion Collection spine #104

    1.162 citations
  3. 3
    Silence沈黙 SILENCE

    1971 · Japan · drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1971 #2

    0.631 citation
  4. 4
    Ballad of Orinはなれ瞽女おりん

    1977 · Japan · drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1977 #3

    0.501 citation
  5. 5
    MacArthur's Children最後の楽園

    1984 · Japan · drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1984 #3

    0.501 citation
  6. 6
    Sharaku写楽

    1995 · Japan · drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1995 #5

    0.391 citation
  7. 7
    Gonza the Spearman鑓の権三

    1986 · Japan · drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1986 #6

    0.361 citation
  8. 8
    Clouds at Sunsetあかね雲

    1967 · Japan

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1967 #8

    0.321 citation
  9. 9
    Pale Flower乾いた花

    1964 · Japan · drama, crime, film-noir

    Criterion Collection spine #564 · Roger Ebert's Great Movies

    0.292 citations
  10. 10
    Moonlight Serenade瀬戸内ムーンライト・セレナーデ

    1997 · Japan · drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1997 #10

    0.291 citation
  11. 11
    Samurai Spy異聞猿飛佐助

    1965 · Japan · romance, drama

    Criterion Collection spine #312

    0.161 citation
  12. 12
    Demon Pond夜叉ケ池

    1979 · Japan · fantasy, romance

    Criterion Collection spine #1237

    0.161 citation

Complete filmography

All 24 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.