Directing
Shinji Kuma
Born January 4, 1968 (age 58)
Film and television director.
Known For
Blue · 2003Blue
★ 6.52003
MovieDramaRomance
An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan.
Married Stewardess: Uniform Ascension · 1998Married Stewardess: Uniform Ascension
★ 4.71998
Movie
Today is last working day stewardess, she recalls life these days days ago…And, it is the first of a memorable day in life.
Dreams for Sale · 2012Dreams for Sale
★ 7.32012
MovieDramaCrime
After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off to a series of lonely women and defrauding them.
Unforgiven · 2013Unforgiven
★ 7.02013
MovieActionCrime
An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down bandits who mutilated one of the women.
Sway · 2006Sway
★ 5.92006
MovieDramaCrime
A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.
The Long Excuse · 2016The Long Excuse
★ 6.82016
MovieDrama
A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.
Strobe Edge · 2015Strobe Edge
★ 6.12015
MovieDramaRomance
Ninako Kinoshita has never been in love until an encounter with the school's most popular boy, Ren Ichinose, leads the two to befriending each other. Ren's patient and kind personality is a far cry from his unapproachable idol status at school, and soon Ninako falls in love with him. However, she must cope with the fact that he already has a long-time girlfriend.
Blue Hour · 2019Blue Hour
★ 6.92019
MovieDramaComedy
Trapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns to her countryside home in the company of a free-spirited friend. In a bittersweet reunion with an alienated family, her childhood memories of freedom and yearnings creep in the dreamlike blue hour, transcending into a lyricism of self-realization – at once whimsical, agonizing and yet hopeful.
































