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Shinji Aoyama is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Assistant Director, Editor and Sound Japonais born on 13 july 1964 at Kitakyūshū (Japon)

Shinji Aoyama

Shinji Aoyama
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Nationality Japon
Birth 13 july 1964 at Kitakyūshū (Japon)
Death 25 march 2022 (at 57 years)

Shinji Aoyama (青山 真治, Aoyama Shinji, born July 13, 1964) is 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.

Biography

Shinji Aoyama was born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. He began to be interested in cinema when he watched Apocalypse Now and he thought seriously about making films after watching Jean-Luc Godard's films such as Pierrot le Fou and Two or Three Things I Know About Her. He graduated from Rikkyo University, where he was deeply influenced by the film critic Shigehiko Hasumi, from whom he took classes.

After graduating, Aoyama worked as an assistant director to Swiss film director Daniel Schmid, Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Icelandic director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson.
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Filmography of Shinji Aoyama (15 films)

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Actor

Barren Illusion, 1h35
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Romance
Actors Shinji Aoyama, Shinji Takeda, Tarō Suwa
Rating64% 3.237893.237893.237893.237893.23789
Haru dirige une compagnie de production musicale avec son ami Kenji. Il ne s'investit guère dans son travail. Sa fiancée, Michi, rêve d'autres horizons. Ils s'aiment, mais n'arrivent pas à se retrouver dans un Japon venteux, gris et étrangement vide. Ils se déchirent et sont attirés par des fantasmes de plus en plus violents...

Director

Backwater
Backwater (2013)
, 1h42
Directed by Shinji Aoyama
Genres Drama
Actors Masaki Suda, Ken Mitsuishi, Yūko Tanaka, Ittoku Kishibe
Rating61% 3.0972853.0972853.0972853.0972853.097285
Toma (Masaki Suda) lives with his father, Madoka (Ken Mitsuishi), and Madoka's lover, Kotoko (Yukiko Kinoshita) on the riverside in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Toma's mother, Jinko (Yuko Tanaka), resides on the other side of the bridge, making a living by cleaning fish. Madoka routinely beats and chokes women when having a sex. As Madoka's son, Toma is afraid of becoming like his father.
Tokyo Park
Tokyo Park (2011)
, 1h59
Directed by Shinji Aoyama
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Actors Haruma Miura, Nana Eikura, Manami Konishi, Igawa Haruka, Shota Sometani, Takashi Ukaji
Rating61% 3.0960253.0960253.0960253.0960253.096025
Miura Haruma takes on the role of Koji, a college student aiming to become a professional photographer. One day, he receives an unusual request to shadow the client's girlfriend and take pictures of her; this assignment leads to subtle changes in his relationships with the women around him. Nana Eikura plays the ex-girlfriend of Koji's childhood friend, while Manami Konishi plays Koji's sister after one of her parents remarries, and Haruka Igawa plays the woman that Koji is photographing.
Sad Vacation, 2h16
Directed by Shinji Aoyama
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Actors Tadanobu Asano, Eri Ishida, Joe Odagiri, Aoi Miyazaki, Katsuo Nakamura, Kengo Kora
Rating67% 3.389113.389113.389113.389113.38911
En conduisant un camion de travailleurs clandestins chinois, Kenji découvre Achun, un enfant, au pied du cadavre de son père poursuivi par les passeurs, et le prend sous son aile. Il s'installe dans une petite ville où il est embauché comme chauffeur privé. Un jour, en raccompagnant un homme chez lui, il découvre que celui-ci est le nouveau mari de sa mère, qui l'avait abandonné quand il avait l'âge d'Achun. Il décide alors de s'immiscer dans la vie de cette femme...
Crickets
Crickets (2006)
, 1h42
Directed by Shinji Aoyama
Genres Drama
Actors Kyōka Suzuki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masanobu Ando, Ayumi Itō, Machiko Ono, Ken Mitsuishi
Rating63% 3.1721053.1721053.1721053.1721053.172105
This script must be run from the command line
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?, 1h47
Directed by Shinji Aoyama
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Tadanobu Asano, Aoi Miyazaki, Mariko Okada, Masaya Nakahara, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Shingo Tsurumi
Rating65% 3.298683.298683.298683.298683.29868
" Mon Dieu, Mon Dieu, pourquoi m'as-Tu abandonné ?" Le jour où ce mot a été crié dans une détresse profonde, le Christ est mort sur la croix. En 2015, un virus s'est propagé dans plusieurs villes à travers le monde. Un virus qui pousse au suicide. Les gens, une fois contaminés, développent la maladie et meurent. Il n'y a aucun remède pour combattre ce mal fait de peur et de désespoir. Les médias nomment ce fléau, le Syndrome du lemming.
The Lakeside Murder Case, 1h59
Directed by Shinji Aoyama
Genres Drama, Horror, Crime
Actors Kōji Yakusho, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Etsushi Toyokawa, Akira Emoto, Fukumi Kuroda, Shingo Tsurumi
Rating62% 3.1449153.1449153.1449153.1449153.144915
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. One night, one of the wives confesses to her husband that she has killed his mistress...
Desert Moon, 2h11
Directed by Shinji Aoyama
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Actors Hiroshi Mikami, Maho Toyota, Shuji Kashiwabara, Isao Natsuyagi, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Itsuji Itao
Rating61% 3.093473.093473.093473.093473.09347
The film's main theme is the conflict between work and family commitments in modern Japan. It focuses on a successful internet entrepreneur Nagai (Hiroshi Mikami), whose wife Akira (Maho Toyota) and young daughter Kaai (Yukiko Ikari) left him because he neglected them for his business. A young hustler Keechie (Shuji Kashiwabara), who has emotion problems concerning his own father, becomes involved in the family's drama.
Eureka
Eureka (2000)
, 3h37
Directed by Shinji Aoyama
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Actors Kōji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Sayuri Kokushō, Ken Mitsuishi, Yutaka Matsushige, Sansei Shiomi
Rating76% 3.846593.846593.846593.846593.84659
Eureka is a drama set mainly in rural Kyushu, Japan, and is almost entirely shot in sepia tone. It tells the story of the lasting effects of a violent experience on three people, a teenage brother and sister, Naoki and Kozue Tamura and a bus driver, Makoto Sawai. These three are the sole survivors when the bus is hijacked by a deranged killer. The actual violent events which traumatise them are not shown in detail. The extent to which the three have been affected becomes apparent only slowly. Naoki and Kozue do not return to school, do not speak and become dissociated from their parents.
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Scriptwriter

Cut
Cut (2011)
, 2h13
Directed by Amir Naderi
Genres Drama
Actors Hidetoshi Nishijima, Takako Tokiwa, Takashi Sasano, Shun Sugata, Denden
Roles Co-Writer
Rating55% 2.7611752.7611752.7611752.7611752.761175
Tokyo Park
Tokyo Park (2011)
, 1h59
Directed by Shinji Aoyama
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Actors Haruma Miura, Nana Eikura, Manami Konishi, Igawa Haruka, Shota Sometani, Takashi Ukaji
Roles Writer
Rating61% 3.0960253.0960253.0960253.0960253.096025
Miura Haruma takes on the role of Koji, a college student aiming to become a professional photographer. One day, he receives an unusual request to shadow the client's girlfriend and take pictures of her; this assignment leads to subtle changes in his relationships with the women around him. Nana Eikura plays the ex-girlfriend of Koji's childhood friend, while Manami Konishi plays Koji's sister after one of her parents remarries, and Haruka Igawa plays the woman that Koji is photographing.
Sad Vacation, 2h16
Directed by Shinji Aoyama
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Actors Tadanobu Asano, Eri Ishida, Joe Odagiri, Aoi Miyazaki, Katsuo Nakamura, Kengo Kora
Roles Créateur de nouvelle
Rating67% 3.389113.389113.389113.389113.38911
En conduisant un camion de travailleurs clandestins chinois, Kenji découvre Achun, un enfant, au pied du cadavre de son père poursuivi par les passeurs, et le prend sous son aile. Il s'installe dans une petite ville où il est embauché comme chauffeur privé. Un jour, en raccompagnant un homme chez lui, il découvre que celui-ci est le nouveau mari de sa mère, qui l'avait abandonné quand il avait l'âge d'Achun. Il décide alors de s'immiscer dans la vie de cette femme...