Shiota Akihiko

  • Name: Shiota Akihiko
  • Native name: 塩田明彦
  • Also Known as: しおた あきひこ
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: September 11, 1961
  • Age: 64
Shiota attended Rikkyo University, where he was in a film club with other students such as Makoto Shinozaki and Shinji Aoyamaand began making 8mm films in the tradition of other Rikkyo students like Kiyoshi Kurosawa. His independently made films were recognized at the Pia Film Festival and he began writing film criticism and working as an assistant for Kurosawa and other filmmakers. He also studied screenwriting under Atsushi Yamatoya, who wrote scenarios for Seijun Suzuki, and worked as the cinematographer for films by Takayoshi Yamaguchi.

His first two films as a director, Moonlight Whispers and Don't Look Back, were both released in 1999 and earned Shiota the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. Don't Look Back also won the Jury Prize at the Three Continents Festival. Harmful Insect (2002) screened at the Venice Film Festival and earned two more awards at the Three Continents Festival. His first major commercial film, Yomigaeri, was the fourth biggest grossing Japanese film of 2003. Canary, his 2005 film inspired by the killings of Aum Shinrikyo in 1995, won the top prize at the Raindance Film Festival. Dororo, based on a manga by Osamu Tezuka, was the eighth top-grossing Japanese film of 2007.

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Screenwriter
Year Title Type Rating
1996 Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble
Movie
0.0
1992 Curse, Death & Spirit
Movie
6.3
Director
Year Title Type Rating
2001 Harmful Insect
Movie
7.0
1982 Yasashii Musume
Movie
0.0
Screenwriter & Director
Year Title Type Rating
2023 Shunga Sensei
Movie
6.8
2022 The World of You
Movie
7.5
2019 Farewell Song
Movie
7.3
2016 Wet Woman in the Wind
Movie
6.4
2014 I Just Wanna Hug You
Movie
7.7
2014 Lifeline
Movie
6.4
2012 Spy Tokku
Drama
8.0
2007 Dororo
Movie
7.2
2005 A Heartful of Love
Movie
6.9
2005 Canary
Movie
7.4
2003 Resurrection
Movie
7.0
2001 Gips
Movie
6.7
1999 Don't Look Back
Movie
7.2
1999 Moonlight Whispers
Movie
6.7
1983 Fa La La
Movie
0.0
Assistant Director
Year Title Type Rating
1983 Kandagawa Wars
Movie
5.9
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  • Native name: 塩田明彦
  • Also Known as: しおた あきひこ
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: September 11, 1961
  • Age: 64

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