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name: "Shinkichi Noda"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/shinkichi-noda"
fi1m_id: "shinkichi-noda"
imdb_id: "nm1814885"
tmdb_id: 2285226
wikidata_id: "Q11646034"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "28 January 1916"
died: "22 November 1993"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T02:55:05.764912+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Shinkichi Noda

## Identity

Shinkichi Noda

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/shinkichi-noda
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** shinkichi-noda
- **IMDb ID:** nm1814885
- **TMDB ID:** 2285226
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11646034
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11646034, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1814885/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2285226

Actor. Born 28 January 1916 in Yawatahama City, Ehime, Japan. Died 22 November 1993.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 28 January 1916, Yawatahama City, Ehime, Japan
- **Died:** 22 November 1993
- **Active:** 1976–1998
- **Also known as:** 野田 真吉
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 74 (1), 1990s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11646034, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1814885/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2285226

## Biography

Shinkichi Noda (野田 真吉) was a Japanese documentary filmmaker, producer and writer. He joined the PCL studio (later Toho) in 1937 after studying French literature at Waseda University and made his directorial debut in 1939 with the short *Postal Worker*. After wartime service and involvement in the post-war Toho labour disputes, he worked as a freelance director on educational, industrial and social-issue documentaries.

His notable works include *Marine Snow: The Origin of Oil* (1960), films on labour struggles such as *The Matsukawa Incident: Seeing the Truth Through the Wall* (1954), and later ethnographic pieces on Japanese festivals and folk traditions, including *The Feast of the Gods on a Winter’s Night: Toyama’s Shimotsuki Festival* (1970). He co-founded film and documentary associations and contributed to criticism and programming. Noda also appeared as the Street Restaurant Owner in Nagisa Ōshima’s *In the Realm of the Senses* (1976).

*Sources: imdb.com, eiga.com, yidff.jp, kotobank.jp.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Ring* (1998), Fi1m 84, as Member of the Press — [page](https://film.one/film/ring.md)
- *In the Realm of the Senses* (1976), Fi1m 74, as Street Restaurant Owner — [page](https://film.one/film/in-the-realm-of-the-senses.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ring* (1998), as Member of the Press — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/ring.md)
- *Good Road for the Living and the Dead: Niino Bon Odori, Festival to Send Off the Gods* (1991), Director
- *The Procession of Weird and Wonderful Masks* (1988), Director
- *Sarushima Island with a Fort: Ruins and Graffiti* (1987), Director
- *The Mikagura Festival of Tomiyama Village* (1985), Director
- *Mizutani Isao’s Wanderings through Ten Spiritual Worlds* (1984), Director
- *Snow as Flowers: Niino’s Snow Festival* (1980), Director
- *Collapsed Swamp, or Painter Yamashita Kikuji* (1976), Director
- *In the Realm of the Senses* (1976), as Street Restaurant Owner — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/in-the-realm-of-the-senses.md)
- *The Horse-running Ritual of Honmoku Shrine* (1973), Director
- *Miura Kikuna’s Ameya Dance* (1972), Director
- *The Lion Dance of Toya* (1972), Director
- *Sagicho in Oiso* (1972), Director
- *A Million Prayers for Amitabha Buddha and the Lion Dance of Yozuku* (1971), Director
- *Yoshihama’s Kashima Dance, Ashigara’s Sasara Dance* (1971), Director
- *The Feast of the Gods on a Winter’s Night: Toyama’s Shimotsuki Festival* (1970), Director
- *The Loneliness of Two Long Distance Runners* (1966), Director
- *Nippon Express Carries the Olympics to Tokyo* (1964), Writer, Director
- *A Town Not Yet Seen* (1963), Director
- *Nichiray a la carte* (1963), Director, Script
- *Tying Land and Sea* (1960), Director
- *June 1960: Rage Against the Security Treaty* (1960), Director
- *Marine Snow: The Origin of Oil* (1960), Director
- *The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Villages of the Northeast* (1959), Director
- *The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Tokaido, Yesterday and Today* (1958), Director
- *Forgotten Land* (1958), Director
- *The New Japanese Geography Film Series: The Roofs of Honshu* (1957), Director
- *Festivals in Tohoku Part 3* (1957), Director
- *Festivals in Tohoku Part 1* (1956), Director
- *Country Life under Snow* (1956), Director
- *The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Tone River* (1955), Director
- *The Matsukawa Incident: Seeing the Truth Through the Wall* (1954), Director
- *The Unforgivable Atom Bomb: The Singing Voice of 1954 Japan* (1954), Director
- *Technique of Foundry: The Cupola Operation* (1954), Director
- *The Workers of Keihin 1953* (1953), Director
- *生れかわる客車* (1953), Director
- *Work in Retail* (1951), Director
- *The Locomotive Kid* (1950), Director
- *The Girl of the Valley* (1949), Director
- *農村住宅改善　Renovating Farm Houses* (1941), Director
- *Festivals in Tohoku Part 2*, Director

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