Kaneto Shindō Movies
- 2003

Owl
Owl6.1432003HD
A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to...
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- 1983

I Lived, But...
I Lived, But...6.51983HD
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...
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- 1947

Marriage
Marriage71947HD
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.
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- 1966

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage7.11966HD
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.
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- 1995

A Last Note
A Last Note71995HD
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring...
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- 1961

Challenge to Live
Challenge to Live01961HD
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during...
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- 1986

Tree Without Leaves
Tree Without Leaves7.81986HD
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his...
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- 1987

Actress
Actress71987HD
Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.
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- 1962

The Whale God
The Whale God6.81962HD
A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.
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- 1963

The Navy
The Navy01963HD
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his...
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- 1999

The Geisha House
The Geisha House7.41999HD
Set in a Kyoto geisha house during the post-WWII era, the young Omocha begins her rigorous apprenticeship within the traditional community of geiko...
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- 1954

Wakai hito-tachi
Wakai hito-tachi01954HD
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- 1960

The Gambling Samurai
The Gambling Samurai6.31960HD
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying...
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- 1969

Heat Wave Island
Heat Wave Island61969HD
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. The film...
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- 1966

Lost Sex
Lost Sex01966HD
A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring,...
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- 1968

Strong Women, Weak Men
Strong Women, Weak Men01968HD
After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become...
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- 1959

Lucky Dragon No. 5
Lucky Dragon No. 57.31959HD
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...
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- 2000

By Player
By Player82000HD
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the...
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- 1999

Will to Live
Will to Live6.31999HD
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 people's home...
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- 1953

Reminiscence
Reminiscence01953HD
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...
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