Director

Shin Adachi

Writing

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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 0All crew credits: 30

TMDB ID: 1124599

IMDb ID: nm2136604

Known for: Writing

Born: January 1, 1973

Age: 53

Place of birth: Tottori Prefecture, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2006 - 2025

Years active: 20

Average TMDB rating: 6.94

Wikidata: Q11637024

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Director (3)Screenplay (16)Writer (8)Novel (1)Original Film Writer (1)Original Story (1)

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Biography

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 the 2004 pro wrestling comedy Mask de 41. His breakthrough was the script for the 2014 boxing drama 100 Yen Love, which won him a Japan Academy Award. In 2016 Adachi made his directorial debut with the semi-autobiographical teen comedy 14 That Night.

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