is a Japanese film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

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Career

Born in Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

, Shinozaki attended Rikkyō University

Rikkyo University

, also known as Saint Paul's University, is a private university, based on Christian precepts, in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. There is a suburban campus in Niiza in nearby Saitama.It is known for its liberal climate symbolized by the motto -History:...

 where he studied under Shigehiko Hasumi

Shigehiko Hasumi

is a male film critic and one of the most popular professional academic researchers on French literature in Japan. He is also the former president of the University of Tokyo, and is still continuing his critical activities after his retirement.- Family :Hasumi's father Shigeyasu was a professor at...

, made 8mm films, and appeared in the then amateur works of other Rikkyō graduates such as Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

is a Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre.-Biography:Born in Kobe on July 19, 1955, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is not related to director Akira 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

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...

 and Takeshi Kitano

Takeshi Kitano

is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work. The famed Japanese film critic...

 for magazines. While working as a projectionist for the Athénée Français Cultural Center in Tokyo, 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. His next feature film, Not Forgotten, was screened at the Three Continents Film Festival, where its stars, Tomio Aoki

Tomio Aoki

aka was a Japanese film actor.Aoki became famous as a child actor after debuting at the age of six in silent films directed by Yasujirō Ozu. His leading role in Ozu's 1929 short comedy Tokkan kozo gave Aoki his nickname. I Was Born, But... , Passing Fancy and An Inn in Tokyo were three other Ozu...

, Tatsuya Mihashi, and Minoru Oki, shared the best actor award. Having developed a close relationship with Takeshi Kitano, Shinozaki has made a documentary on the filming of Kikujiro

Kikujiro

The album includes "Summer", one of the most famous compositions by Hisaishi; it was also re-arranged and used for Toyota Corolla commercials, for instance...

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

Shinji Aoyama

is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, composer, and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka.-Biography:...

, Akihiko Shiota

Akihiko Shiota

is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.-Career:Born in Kyoto Prefecture, Shiota attended Rikkyō University, where he began making 8mm films in the tradition of other Rikkyō students like Kiyoshi Kurosawa...

, and Hirokazu Koreeda

Hirokazu Koreeda

is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. His films explore themes of memory, death, and coming to terms with loss.Koreeda originally planned to be a novelist, but after graduating from Waseda University instead worked as an assistant director on documentaries for TV Man Union...

. Continuing to write on film, he has published a history of horror cinema with Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

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.

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)

External links

• Midnight Eye interview conducted by Tom Mes