Kaneto Shindo Movies

Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women...

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

Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student...

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

A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been...

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.

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

The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was...

After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shamisen player and folk-song collector named...

The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to live both at a guest house. Both will be...

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they...

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...

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...