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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.
Most Popular Kaneto Shindō Trailers
Total trailers found: 198
08 June 2009
Professor Wilson discovers a lost Akita puppy on his way home. Despite objections from his wife, Hachi endears himself to the family and grows to be Parker's loyal companion.
05 February 1956
Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso.
27 November 1956
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
17 April 1952
A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
14 April 1959
Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.
11 February 1984
Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises 4 children.
29 October 1969
Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead.
05 August 1978
Japanese horror move from 1978.
18 March 1958
Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day.
01 April 1988
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.
17 August 1951
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.
12 March 1972
A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed.
04 April 1964
The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.
04 June 1966
Film by director Kenji Misumi
20 February 2026
In medieval England, Anne and her domineering mother-in-law Morwen struggle to survive on the outskirts of society.
28 August 1963
19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while taking up arms to overthrow the local shogunate.
28 March 1960
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's family.
29 October 1983
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to work on this).
26 September 1948
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
16 October 1960
A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young man who has a master license menkyo kaiden in the art of swordsmanship, but weak against lies and women.
03 April 1965
Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo during the Edo period.
09 March 1949
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.
25 June 1965
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.
18 March 1947
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.
31 March 2023
This is the story of a puppy that touched hundreds of millions of people around the world. Hachiko is a cute Chinese pastoral dog.
07 September 1951
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles.
21 November 1964
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find.
27 September 2008
The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.
14 February 1998
Yukie is a romance story about an American veteran (Bo Swenson) of the Korean War veteran and his undying love for a beautiful Japanese nurse named Yukie (Mitsuko Baisho) who marries him despite her parents' objections.
30 September 1958
Japanese suspense film.
07 September 1958
A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to kill him.
11 June 1951
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course.
01 August 1987
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
28 June 1967
The daughter of a Prime Minister turns down the proposal of a young teacher when she falls for the wrong man.
28 June 1961
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie.
22 November 1959
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
15 January 1966
Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's.
06 June 1992
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha named Oyuki.
02 June 1979
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.
30 January 1999
Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a failed marriage which leaves him a deep and everlasting scar in his mind.
24 December 1966
Third film of the yoidore hakase series
31 January 1968
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties.
14 March 1962
The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.
03 July 1957
Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
01 November 1963
Azusa has just been discharged from the hospital and is frolicking on the beach in Jushi, finally getting her freedom.
14 August 1971
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs.
17 September 1966
Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie
15 April 1978
A junior high school teacher is raped by several students inside the school.
23 November 1953
Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant
03 November 1983
A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Yomiuri Television and the 30th anniversary of the founding of Nippon Television.
09 November 1966
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
12 September 1981
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
08 November 1960
A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki.
08 December 1941
In the early 18th-century, Lord Takumi-no-kami Asano, feuding with Lord Kira, tries to kill his opponent in the corridors of the Shogun's palace.
27 October 1973
The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to live both at a guest house.
