Person
Shinobu Yaguchi
Directing · Born 1967-05-30 · Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan
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.
Known for
Dollhouse
Director
Swing Girls
Director
Swing Girls Side Story
Characters
Wood Job!
Screenplay
Survival Family
Director
Weathering the Storms
Writer
Down the Drain
Director
My Secret Cache
Director
Parco Fiction
Writer
Waterboys
Screenplay
Filmography
- 2025DollhouseDirector
- 2019Dance with MeWriter
- 2017Survival FamilyDirector
- 2014Wood Job!Screenplay
- 2012Robo-GScreenplay
- 2008Happy FlightDirector
- 2007Tokyo RhapsodyDirector
- 2005SWING GIRLS First & Last ConcertShinobu Yaguchi
- 2004Swing GirlsDirector
- 2004Swing Girls Side StoryCharacters
- 2002Parco FictionWriter
- 2001WaterboysScreenplay
- 2001School Ghost Story: Mononoke SpecialDirector
- 2000The Whispered City達也の友人
- 2000School Ghost Story: Curse SpecialWriter
- 1999One Piece! 水玉 COLLECTIONDirector
- 1999School Ghost Story: Spring Haunting SpecialDirector
- 1999Weathering the StormsWriter
- 1999Adrenaline DriveWriter
- 1998French DressingConvenience Store Employee
- 1997My Secret CacheDirector
- 1996Bird WatchingDirector
- 1993Down the DrainDirector
- 1990The Rain WomenDirector
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