Kaneto Shindō
Known for: Directing
Born: April 22, 1912
Died: May 29, 2012
Place of birth: Hiroshima, Japan
Kaneto Shindo (新藤 兼人, Shindō Kaneto, April 22, 1912 – May 29, 2012) was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and author. He was married to actress Nobuko Otowa (1925–1994), who appeared in several of his films. He directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note. His scripts were filmed by such directors as Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Fumio Kamei and Tadashi Imai. He won the 1996 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for A Last Note. Shindo was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, and he made several films about Hiroshima and the atomic bomb. Like his early mentor Kenji Mizoguchi, many of his films feature strong female characters. He was a pioneer of independent film production in Japan, founding a company called Kindai Eiga Kyokai. He continued working as a scriptwriter, director and author until his death at the age of 100. Shindo made a series of autobiographical films, beginning with the first film he directed, 1951's Story of a Beloved Wife, about his struggle to become a screenwriter, through 1986's Tree Without Leaves, about his childhood, born into a wealthy family which became destitute, 2000's By Player, about his film company, seen through the eyes of his friend Taiji Tonoyama, and his last film, Postcard, directed at the age of 98, loosely based on his military service. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kaneto Shindō, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Filmography
211 movies · 3 TV shows, newest first
6.0
The Dreadful
2026
8.0
Hachiko
2023
NR
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
2011
5.8
Postcard
2010
8.0
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
2009
6.0
Teacher and Three Children
2008
5.3
The Battleship on the Ground
2007
NR
What's a Director?
2006
6.4
Owl
2003
7.5
A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
2001
8.5
By Player
2000
5.4
The Perfect Education
1999
6.4
Will to Live
1999
7.7
The Geisha House
19999.0
Solitude Point
1998
8.0
The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa
1996
7.1
A Last Note
1995
10.0
Faraway Sunset
1992
7.8
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992NR
ゼロの焦点
1991
7.0
Crossroads in Tokyo
1991
8.0
Don't Mind
1990
6.8
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
7.8
Hachiko
1987
7.7
Actress
1987
8.0
Tree Without Leaves
1986
6.5
Black Board
1986
7.0
The Horizon
1984
10.0
Tsumiki kuzushi
1983
NR
The Women of Osaka Castle
1983
6.8
I Lived, But...
1983
NR
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
1983
NR
Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
1983
NR
Shadow Conspirator
1982NR
Bijin Koroshi Series
1981
9.0
Rennyo and His Mother
1981
5.9
Edo Porn
1981
NR
The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge
1981
10.0
Drive for the Future
1980
5.8
Magnitude 7.9
1980
6.0
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979
4.8
The Strangling
1979NR
The 47 Ronins of Ako
1979
NR
Ameyuki-san
19797.0
Horror of the Giant Vortex
1978
7.2
The Incident
1978NR
A Young Female Instructor
1978
3.7
Dangerous Liaisons
1978NR
Document 8.6
1977
8.2
The Life of Chikuzan
1977
7.0
The Perennial Weed
1975
7.2
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1975
6.0
My Way
1974
8.2
The Heart
1973
6.0
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
1973
4.0
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
1973
6.7
Hymn
1972
4.9
Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl
1972
6.0
Kanawa
1972
7.6
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
1972
NR
Sweet Secret
1971
7.8
The Battle of Okinawa
1971
6.3
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971
6.9
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970
8.0
Strange Affinity
1970
6.7
Heat Wave Island
1969
6.8
Devil's Temple
1969
8.2
Thousand Cranes
1969
8.0
Strong Women, Weak Men
1968
7.4
Kuroneko
1968
8.0
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1968
6.7
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967NR
A Fallen Woman
1967
10.0
Libido
1967
7.3
Two Wives
1967
NR
The Suitors
1967
NR
Drunken Harbor
1966
7.0
Fighting Elegy
1966
NR
Dynamite Doctor Returns
1966
9.0
Lost Sex
1966
7.1
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
1966
NR
Dynamite Doctor
1966
6.9
Irezumi
1966
6.0
Conquest
1965
7.3
Seisaku's Wife
1965
NR
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
1965
7.7
Onibaba
1964
8.0
The Gorgeous Geisha
1964
NR
Camellia Gate
1964
6.5
Manji
1964
9.0
Suruga Yūkyōden: Gambling Hall Robbery
1964
7.0
A Public Benefactor
1964
NR
Onibaba : Film Location
1964
6.8
Mother
1963
NR
The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji
1963
NR
Maiko and the Assassin
1963
NR
The Navy
1963
8.0
When Women Lie
1963
7.3
Elegant Beast
1962
6.9
Human
1962
NR
Hell's Assassin
1962
NR
The Lucky General
1962
7.0
The Whale God
1962
6.8
Destiny's Son
1962
7.0
This Madding Crowd
1962
NR
Ano sora no hate ni hoshi wa matataku
1962
NR
Sabakareru Echizen no kami
1962
7.1
Black Lizard
1962
7.2
Stolen Pleasure
1962
10.0
Their Legacy
1962
9.0
Netsuai sha
1961
7.0
Haitoku no mesu
1961
6.0
As the Clouds Scatter
1961
6.5
A Design for Dying
1961
9.0
Challenge to Live
1961
NR
The Lovers
1961
10.0
The Matsukawa Incident
1961
NR
The Wayside Pebble
1960
8.0
The Naked Island
1960
7.0
Devotion to Railway
1960
9.0
Master Fencer Sees the World
1960
9.0
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960
NR
A Nice Guy
1960
6.9
The Gambling Samurai
1960
8.0
The Great Road
1960
9.0
The Bride from Japan
1959
NR
The Aristocrat's Stairs
1959
NR
The Telephone Rings in the Evening
1959
7.5
Break Down that Wall
1959
NR
Talented Woman
1959
9.0
Diary of Forsaken Love
1959
7.5
Lucky Dragon No. 5
1959
6.5
The Ladder of Success
1958
7.0
The Naked Sun
1958
NR
Face in the Dark
1958
NR
A Grain of Wheat
1958
9.0
The Lowest Man
1958
5.9
Night Drum
1958
9.0
The Precipice
1958
8.0
Sorrow Is Only for Women
1958
NR
Forbidden Lips
1958
7.0
On This Earth
1957
7.3
But the Flesh is Weak
1957
9.0
Harbor Rats
1957
10.0
Who's the Real Killer
1957
8.0
The Shadow Daughter
1957
8.0
Actress
1956
NR
Yonjū-hassai no teikō
1956
NR
Easy-Going Married Couple
1956
NR
The Shadow of Fear
1956NR
How Sorrowful
1956
8.0
Wandering Shore
1956
7.0
Wedding Day
1956
8.0
Love is Lost
1956
NR
Warriors of Ako: Scroll of Heaven, Scroll of Earth
19569.0
The Motherless
1955
10.0
The Beauty and the Dragon
1955
10.0
If Indeed One Loves
1955
6.9
The Wolves
1955
7.0
Sisters
1955
9.0
Women of Ginza
1955
8.0
Wakai hito-tachi
1954
9.0
Turbid Youth
1954
7.5
Ditch
1954
9.0
Cape Ashizuri
1954
NR
Love and Duty
1954
10.0
Life of a Woman
1953
NR
To the Ends of the Earth
1953
10.0
Before Dawn
1953
9.0
Desire
1953
7.8
Miniature
1953
NR
Murahachibu
1953
7.0
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953
7.0
Reminiscence
1953
8.0
Violence
1952
7.1
Children of Hiroshima
1952
7.5
Sisters of Nishijin
1952NR
Avalanche
1952
NR
Izayoi kaidō
1951
NR
Tokyo Elegy
1951
7.0
Story of a Beloved Wife
1951
6.4
Dancing Girl
1951
NR
Saijoke no kyoen
1951
6.0
The Tale of Genji
1951
NR
Jōen no hatoba
1951
8.0
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
NR
Freedom School
1951
NR
The White Orchid
1951
10.0
Judge of the Ashuras
1951
7.0
Clothes of Deception
1951
NR
Shojohou
1950
1.0
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950
NR
A Man from Akagi
1950
7.0
The Bells of Nagasaki
1950
NR
The End of the War
1950
NR
Alps Story: The Wild
1950
8.0
Pursuit At Dawn
1950
NR
Spring Snow
1950
7.0
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949
6.8
Here's to the Young Lady
1949
5.6
Flame of My Love
1949
NR
Jealousy
1949
NR
Kōfuku no genkai
1948
9.0
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1948
NR
Great X
1948
8.0
Temptation
1948
NR
The Man of Rumor
1948
7.0
The Ball at the Anjo House
1947
7.7
Marriage
1947
NR
The Woman Who Holds the Key
1946NR
Waiting Woman
1946
7.1
Victory of Women
1946
6.9
The 47 Ronin
1941NR
Otomebashi
1936