January 1, 1973 · 53 years old
Born in 1973 in Tottori Prefecture, Adachi Shin graduated from the Japan Academy of Moving Images, a film school founded in Yokohama in 1975 by director Imamura Shohei. Adachi served as an assistant director to Somai Shinji and started writing scripts. His first feature scriptwriting credit was for…

A 32-year-old woman living with her parents meets a boxer and finally starts a life.

A comedic portrait of an unhappy marriage between an unemployed screenwriter and his wife who's supported him for 10 years, based on the writer/director's own autobiography.

Life in the village may seem monotonous to a junior high school student. Local bullies are trouble and parents are annoying. Then one exciting day in 1987 Takashi hears a rumour that a porn star called Kyoko is visiting the villag...

Following the manga source material high school girl Ooshima Shino has a speech impediment and, as such, enjoys a lack of friends and general awkwardness. Shino soon meets Kayo who is tone-deaf despite her love of music and song. ...

A gritty, hardhitting boxing saga about the trials and tribulations of Suenaga, a former boxing champion suffering from ennui after a fall from grace. Struggling to survive, he accepts an invitation to an exhibition match against ...

Suenaga finds his life on the verge of collapsing as violence consumes those around him. However, he finds a worthy opponent in Omura, an up-and-coming wunderkind who is trying to escape his violent past. The men's fight for redem...

A treasure appears in front of antique dealer Norio Koike and potter Sasuke Noda. The treasure is Hideyoshi Toyotomi's porcelain tea bowl called Houou, that has been missing.