# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shinobu-yaguchi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:17:45.253Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shinobu-yaguchi"
name: "Shinobu Yaguchi"
slug: "shinobu-yaguchi"
description: "Shinobu Yaguchi  is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He specializes in feel-good \"zero to hero\" films, where a group of people take up an unlikely activity, face a number of obstacles, but finally succeed. His film Waterboys was particularly successful and led to a TV series which entered its third season in 2005. He was awarded Best Screenplay at the 2005 Yokohama Film Festival for his film Swing Girls."
tagline: "Japanese film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/pRY2AnANlCqGCLnJaFjCyS61xDR.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1967-05-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.628492
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0944937/"
    handle:    "nm0944937"
sources:
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    title: "Shinobu Yaguchi"
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    title: "شينوبو ياغوتشي"
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    title: "شينوبو ياجوتشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinobu_Yaguchi"
    title: "Shinobu Yaguchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinobu_Yaguchi"
    title: "Shinobu Yaguchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinobu_Yaguchi"
    title: "Shinobu Yaguchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88_%DB%8C%D8%A7%DA%AF%D9%88%DA%86%DB%8C"
    title: "شینوبو یاگوچی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinobu_Yaguchi"
    title: "Shinobu Yaguchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%A2%E5%8F%A3%E5%8F%B2%E9%9D%96"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%BC%EA%B5%AC%EC%B9%98_%EC%8B%9C%EB%85%B8%EB%B6%80"
    title: "야구치 시노부"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q382081"
    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Shinobu Yaguchi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump