Kaneto Shindō

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai ...

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai, a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin. ...

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son. Release: Mother 1963 ...

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old ...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops. Release: The Naked Island ...

Ginko, a poor cobbler’s daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love ...

The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly ...

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo’s first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and ...

Six years after the atomic bombing of 06 August 1945, the school teacher Takako Ishikawa returns to Hiroshima on her vacation to visit friends ...

Taking up the argument of ‘Onibaba’ (1964), the nonagenarian Director Kaneto Shindo places the action in the eighties: a mother and ...

In medieval times, on a remote plain, a widow and her mother-in-law kill wandering samurai, put their bodies in a hole in the ground and sell ...

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring ...

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and ...

Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After ...

Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with ...

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama’s life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, ...

A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night. Release: ...

Michio Yamada (Daijiro Yamada), a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a ...

A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan. Release: The Life of ...

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to ...