Kaneto Shindō Movies

A literary masterpiece that sharply critiques the ethics of modern romance, featuring a 48-year-old father who burns through the last of his youth...

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

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.

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life....

A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.

A junior high school teacher is raped by several students inside the school.

In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...

A tale of melancholy centered on a couple of engineers at a power plant in the north and a pure romance with a female engineer.

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .

The story opens with Yukiko and her business partner in Moscow searching for Russian items for their store in Tokyo. There they meet a Russian...

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...

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.

A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.

In 1880s Japan, women's struggle for equality rages on. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...