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Shinji Sōmai (相米 慎二, Sōmai Shinji, 13 January 1948 – 9 September 2001) was a Japanese film director. He directed 13 films between 1980 and 2000.

Shinji Sōmai
Born	(1948-01-13)13 January 1948 Morioka, Iwate, Japan
Died	9 September 2001(2001-09-09) (aged 53) Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1980–2000

Career and style

His film Moving was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.[1] His 1998 film, Wait and See, won the FIPRESCI prize at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival in 1999.[2]

The Edinburgh International Film Festival artistic director Chris Fujiwara noted that American film director Nicholas Ray and French film director Jean Vigo shared Somai's sensibilities.[3]

Filmography

Further reading

• Kimura, Tatsuya; Nakamura, Hideyuki; Fujii, Jinshi, eds. (2011). 甦る相米慎二 [Shinji Somai: A Film Director in the Japanese Post-Studio Era] (in Japanese). Tokyo: Inscrpit. ISBN 978-4-900997-32-5.

References

External links

• Shinji Sōmai at IMDb
• Shinji Sōmai at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

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