Makoto Shinozaki

Makoto Shinozaki
Born	1963 Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Film director

Makoto Shinozaki (篠崎誠, Shinozaki Makoto^?) (born 1963) is a Japanese film director.

Career

Born in Tokyo, Shinozaki attended Rikkyō University where he studied under Shigehiko Hasumi, made 8mm films, and appeared in the then amateur works of other Rikkyō graduates such as Kiyoshi Kurosawa. After graduating, he worked at the film company Cine Saison and starting writing about film and doing long interviews of directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Takeshi Kitano for magazines.^[1][2] While working as a projectionist for the Athénée Français Cultural Center in Tokyo,^[3] he saved up enough money to make his first 35mm film, Okaeri, for which he won the Wolfgang Staudte Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1995.^[4] His next feature film, Not Forgotten, was screened at the Three Continents Film Festival, where its stars, Tomio Aoki, Tatsuya Mihashi, and Minoru Oki, shared the best actor award.^[5] Having developed a close relationship with Takeshi Kitano, Shinozaki has made a documentary on the filming of Kikujiro as well as a TV movie based on Kitano's autobiographical novel Asakusa Kid. He has also produced the Keiji matsuri series featuring short films by directors such as Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shinji Aoyama, Akihiko Shiota, and Hirokazu Koreeda.^[2] Continuing to write on film, he has published a history of horror cinema with Kiyoshi Kurosawa.^[6]

Shinozaki continues to direct films while also serving as professor in the Department of Expression Studies of the College of Contemporary Psychology at Rikkyō University.^[2]

Selected filmography

• Okaeri (おかえり) (1995)
• Jam Session (ジャムセッション『菊次郎の夏』公式海賊版, Jamu sesshon Kikujirō no natsu kōshiki kaizokuban) (1999)
• Not Forgotten (忘れられぬ人々, Wasurerarenu hitobito) (2000)
• Asakusa Kid (浅草キッドの「浅草キッド」, Asakusa Kiddo no Asakusa kiddo) (2002)
• Tōkyōjima (東京島) (2010)

References

1. ^ "Eiga no tatsujin: Eiga kantoku Shinozaki Makoto-san" (in Japanese). Mini Shiatā ni ikō. 27 September 2010. http://mini-theater.com/?p=10274. Retrieved 2 February 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Kyōin shōkai" (in Japanese). Rikkyō Daigaku Gendai Shinri Gakubu. http://www.rikkyo.ne.jp/grp/gendaishinri/prof/prof_shinozaki.html. Retrieved 2 February 2011. 
3. ^ "Kenkyūsha shōsai: Shinozaki Makoto" (in Japanese). Rikkyō University. http://univdb.rikkyo.ac.jp/view?l=ja&u=1124&sm=affiliation&sl=ja&sp=27. Retrieved 2 February 2011. 
4. ^ Kasuya, Misawo (8 September 2010). "Now Showing Sept. 8". Time Out Tokyo. http://www.timeout.jp/en/tokyo/feature/1157/Now-Showing-Sept-8. Retrieved 2 February 2011. 
5. ^ "22nd Festival des 3 Continents". Festival des 3 Continents. http://www.3continents.com/the_festival/81/archives/last-editions/2000-festival-program.html. Retrieved 2 February 2011. 
6. ^ Kurosawa, Kiyoshi; Shinozaki, Makoto (2003) (in Japanese). Kurosawa Kiyoshi no kyōfu no eigashi. Tokyo: Seidosha. ISBN 9784791760534. 

External links

• Makoto Shinozaki at the Internet Movie Database
• Midnight Eye interview conducted by Tom Mes

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Name	Shinozaki, Makoto
Alternative names
Short description	Japanese film director
Date of birth	1963
Place of birth	Tokyo, Japan
Date of death
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