Shinji Somai all films from best to worst
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- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsKiichi NakaiJunko SakuradaTomoko TabataRenko, a girl in the sixth grade, is at first unperturbed by her parents' decision to separate. With the companionship of her boyfriend, Minoru, and Sally, a classmate in the same boat, Renko gradually realises the practical implications of divorce, and tries repeatedly to get her parents to reconcile. An old man teaches her about the need to forget the past...
- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsYuichi MikamiYûki KudôTomokazu MiuraThe movie takes place in the five-day period before, during and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which several students endure while marooned in their school gymnasium.
- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsRentarô MikuniNaoki SakataYasutaka OhA delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.
- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsKyôko KoizumiTadanobu AsanoKumiko AsôA government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey.
- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsNoriko HayamiMinori TeradaKiriko ShimizuIn a fit of despair, Muraki decides to kill himself and a prostitute he has picked up. However, he loses his nerve and doesn't go through with it. Two years later he runs into her again.
- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsKen OgataMasako NatsumeKôichi SatôA young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the older man to teach him the secrets of his dangerous trade.
- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsTatsuya FujiMichiko KawaiMasatoshi NagaseThree high-school students tangle with the Yakuza and the police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.
- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsYuki SaitôTakaaki EnokiKiminori SeraA young girl gets adopted by a family that holds her like a slave and is later "freed" by a young man working for the family's company. 10 years later, she gets involved in the murder of one of her step-sisters.
- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsKiichi NakaiRiho MakiseTsurube ShôfukuteiA pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death.
- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsKôichi SatôYuki SaitôTsutomu YamazakiA happily married and well-educated executive meets a beggar who claims to be his father.
- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsKeiji MutôMichiru AkiyoshiNarumi YasudaLove story of a mountain man who comes to Tokyo from Hokkaido and a club singer who can no longer sing, with astonishing visual beauty.
- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsShingo TsurumiHiroko YakushimaruMieko HaradaAspiring to be admitted to a good university and to become a lawyer, Tasiro Yuusuke, a tenth-grader from Kyushu, enrols in a prestigious high school in Tokyo. Plans are made for him to live in his uncle's house, part of which is rented out while his uncle is abroad on business. A realtor's mistakes leaves Tasiro sharing the house with Kei Yamaba, the most beautiful girl in the school, who is also his classmate. There is the risk that their unexpected 'co-habitation' will be discovered by the school authorities. While he grows increasingly attracted to her, he is often irritated by her innocent and nonchalant attitude towards their predicament. They each develop other romantic attachments, but end up turning to each other...
- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsHiroko YakushimaruTsunehiko WataseRentarô MikuniA teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan.