Movies by Shinji Sōmai
Welcome to our dedicated selection of films directed by Shinji Sōmai. Here, you can explore a diverse range of works that highlight Shinji Sōmai’s unique vision, storytelling style, and contribution to the world of cinema. Whether you’re an avid fan or discovering Shinji sōmai’s filmography for the first time, this collection will guide you through critically acclaimed masterpieces, hidden gems, and influential titles that have shaped the director’s legacy.
Kaza-hana (2000)
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An alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he's impulsively made a suicide pact. Though he's now changed his mind, he agrees to travel with her to Hokkaido, her preferred site for ending it all.
Wait and See (1998)
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A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.
Tokyo Heaven (1990)
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A 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. A blend of fantasy and trenchant realism in which Somai uses the ethereal glow of advertising images to comment on the transience of life.
Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion (1985)
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Iori, taken from an orphanage by a family for domestic work, runs away and is adopted by two young men. Ten years later, she crosses paths with her former owner, who is soon poisoned to death, Iori being the prime suspect.
Typhoon Club (1985)
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Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the five-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly-liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.
The Catch (1983)
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A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade's secrets.
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)
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A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.