Where to watch Shinji Sōmai in the UK
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Shinji Sōmai (相米 慎二, Sōmai Shinji, 13 January 1948 – 9 September 2001) was a Japanese film director. He was born in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, and was brought up in Hokkaido. Somai began his career in 1975 as an assistant director with Nikkatsu Co., one of Japan's leading film production companies, after he dropped out of Chuo University. Somai made made his debut as a director in 1980 with The Terrible Couple - an adaptation of a popular boys' manga of the time. The film deals with the trials and tribulations of adolescence, presaging a long thread of Somai works in which young people are ca…
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- Lesbian World: Fondling (1975) Assistant Director
- Typhoon Club (1985) Director
- Love Hotel (1985) Director
- The Friends (1994) Director
- Moving (1993) Director
- The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) Assistant Director
- Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981) Director
- P. P. Rider (1983) Director
- The Youth Killer (1976) Assistant Director
- Grass Labyrinth (1979) Assistant Director
- Dreamy Fifteen (1980) Director
- Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion (1985) Director
- Kaza-hana (2001) Director
- Tokyo Heaven (1990) Director
- Almost Transparent Blue (1979) Assistant Director
- Luminous Woman (1987) Director
- Wait and See (1998) Director
- The Catch (1983) Director
- Hostess Confidential: Three Juicy Sisters (1975) Assistant Director
- Late Bloom: Campus Erotica (1976) Assistant Director
- 100 High School Girls: Secret Motel Report (1975) Assistant Director
- Beloved Woman (1985) Director
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