Shinobu Yaguchi
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. 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.
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Dollhouse
director
2025
Dollhouse
writer
2025
Dance with Me
writer
2019
Dance with Me
director
2019
Survival Family
writer
2017
Survival Family
director
2017
Wood Job!
writer
2014
Wood Job!
director
2014
Robo-G
director
2012
Robo-G
writer
2012
Happy Flight
director
2008
Happy Flight
writer
2008
Tokyo Rhapsody
director
2007
Swing Girls
director
2004
Swing Girls
writer
2004
Parco Fiction
writer
2002
Parco Fiction
director
2002
Waterboys
director
2001
Waterboys
writer
2001
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
director
2000
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
writer
2000
Weathering the Storms
writer
1999
Adrenaline Drive
director
1999
Adrenaline Drive
writer
1999
French Dressing
actor
1998
My Secret Cache
writer
1997
My Secret Cache
director
1997
Down the Drain
writer
1993
Down the Drain
director
1993