Shinobu Yaguchi

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.

Directed

1. Swing Girls (2004) — Director
2. Survival Family (2017) — Director
3. Dollhouse (2025) — Director
4. Wood Job! (2014) — Director
5. Waterboys (2001) — Director
6. Dance with Me (2019) — Director
7. Happy Flight (2008) — Director
8. Robo-G (2012) — Director
9. Adrenaline Drive (1999) — Director
10. My Secret Cache (1997) — Director
11. One Piece! 水玉 COLLECTION (1999) — Director
12. Down the Drain (1993) — Director
13. School Ghost Story: Curse Special (2000) — Director
14. The Rain Women (1990) — Director
15. Parco Fiction (2002) — Director
16. School Ghost Story: Spring Haunting Special (1999) — Director
17. Bird Watching (1996) — Director
18. Tokyo Rhapsody (2007) — Director
19. School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special (2001) — Director

Also appeared in

1. French Dressing (1998) — Convenience Store Employee
2. The Whispered City (2000) — 達也の友人
3. SWING GIRLS First & Last Concert (2005) — Shinobu Yaguchi