Kaneto Shindo

Shindo Kaneto

  • Name: Shindo Kaneto
  • Native name: 新藤兼人
  • Also Known as: しんどう かねと, Shindou Kaneto, 新藤兼登
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: April 22, 1912
  • Died: May 29, 2012
Shindo Kaneto was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and author. 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.

Shindo was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, and he made several films about Hiroshima and the atomic bomb. Like his early mentor Mizoguchi Kenji, 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.

The strongest and most apparent themes in Shindo's work involve social criticism of poverty, women and sexuality. Shindo has described himself as a socialist. (Source: Wikipedia) Edit Biography
Screenwriter
Year Title Type Rating
2001 A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
Movie
6.0
1999 The Geisha House
Movie
7.8
1991 Tokyo Scramble
Movie
7.0
1990 Donmai
Movie
0.0
1987 Hachiko Monogatari
Movie
8.8
1987 Actress
Movie
6.0
1984 Kuroi Fukuin
Special
0.0
1984 Showa Nijuunnen Hachigatsu Juugo Hi
Special
0.0
1983 Stacked Wood Scraps
Movie
7.0
1979 The Three Undelivered Letters
Movie
8.0
1978 Kiken na Kankei
Movie
0.0
1973 Konketsuji Rika Hamagure Komoriuta
Movie
0.0
1973 Konketsuji Rika Hitori Yuku Sasurai Tabi
Movie
0.0
1972 Konketsuji Rika
Movie
0.0
1972 Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
Movie
7.9
1971 Battle of Okinawa
Movie
7.8
1971 A Soul to Devils
Movie
2.0
1969 Devil's Temple
Movie
8.0
1967 The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Movie
6.2
1967 A Fallen Woman
Movie
9.0
1967 Two Wives
Movie
7.3
1966 Dr.Strong-Arm
Movie
4.0
1966 Fighting Elegy
Movie
6.9
1966 Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
Movie
7.9
1966 Irezumi
Movie
7.1
1965 Seisaku's Wife
Movie
7.3
1964 Manji
Movie
7.0
1964 Suruga Yukyoden: Toba Arashi
Movie
0.0
1963 When Women Lie
Movie
0.0
1962 The Graceful Brute
Movie
7.2
1962 Jigoku no Shikaku
Movie
0.0
1962 The Whale God
Movie
7.6
1962 Aobeka Monogatari
Movie
0.0
1962 Sabakareru Echizen no Kami
Movie
0.0
1962 Stolen Pleasure
Movie
6.0
1962 Kurotokage
Movie
7.5
1962 Katei no jijo
Movie
0.0
1961 As the Clouds Scatter
Movie
6.0
1961 A Design for Dying
Movie
0.0
1961 Tsuyukusa no Yo Ni
Special
0.0
1961 The Matsukawa Incident
Movie
0.0
1960 Devotion to Railway
Movie
6.0
1960 Great Journey
Movie
0.0
1959 Ikikaetta Ishimatsu
Special
0.0
1959 Sono Kabe o Kudake
Movie
3.0
1959 Talented Woman Temperament
Movie
0.0
1958 The Naked Sun
Movie
4.0
1958 Face in the Dark
Movie
0.0
1958 Night Drum
Movie
7.0
1958 The Precipice
Movie
2.0
1957 Misstepping of Virtue
Movie
6.0
1957 Koroshita no wa Dare da
Movie
0.0
1957 Shiawase wa Orera no Negai
Movie
7.0
1956 Byosai Monogatari Aya ni Aishiki
Movie
0.0
1956 Totsugu Hi
Movie
0.0
1954 Young People
Movie
6.0
1954 Dorodarake no Seishun
Movie
0.0
1954 Cape Ashizuri
Movie
0.0
1951 Maihime
Movie
7.5
1951 Clothes of Deception
Movie
7.0
1950 Akagi kara Kita Otoko
Movie
0.0
1950 Pursuit at Dawn
Movie
0.0
1950 The Bells of Nagasaki
Movie
0.0
1950 Haru no Shio: Kohen
Movie
0.0
1950 Haru no Shion: Zempen
Movie
0.0
1949 Dassen Jonetsu Musume
Movie
0.0
1949 Shushin Ima da Kiezu
Movie
4.0
1949 Here's to the Young Lady
Movie
6.8
1949 Flame of My Love
Movie
8.0
1948 Yoninme no Shukujo
Movie
6.0
1948 The Bright Day of My Life
Movie
6.0
1948 Temptation
Movie
0.0
1947 A Ball at the Anjo House
Movie
7.1
1947 Marriage
Movie
0.0
1946 Kagi wo Nigiru Onna
Movie
0.0
1946 Women's Victory
Movie
8.7
1941 Haru Hoshi Fujin
Movie
0.0
Director
Year Title Type Rating
1956 Love is Lost
Movie
5.0
Screenwriter & Director
Year Title Type Rating
2010 Postcard
Movie
7.0
2008 Teacher and Three Children
Movie
6.0
2003 Owl
Movie
6.4
2000 By Player
Movie
7.0
1999 Will to Live
Movie
6.0
1995 A Last Note
Movie
6.4
1986 Tree Without Leaves
Movie
6.6
1986 Blackboard
Movie
7.0
1981 Edo Porn
Movie
6.3
1979 The Strangling
Movie
3.0
1977 The Life of Chikuzan
Movie
6.0
1975 Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Movie
7.0
1974 My Way
Movie
0.0
1973 Love Betrayed
Movie
7.2
1972 Hymn
Movie
7.0
1972 The Iron Crown
Movie
0.0
1970 Live Today, Die Tomorrow
Movie
2.0
1969 Heat Wave Island
Movie
6.0
1968 Kuroneko
Movie
7.7
1964 Onibaba
Movie
7.5
1962 Human
Movie
7.3
1960 The Naked Island
Movie
7.6
1959 Daigo Fukuryuu Maru
Movie
7.0
1957 Umi no Yarodomo
Movie
0.0
1956 Actress
Movie
0.0
1956 Ryuri no Kishi
Movie
0.0
1955 Wolf
Movie
6.0
1954 The Ditch
Movie
7.8
1953 Epitome
Movie
6.0
1952 Children of Hiroshima
Movie
7.5
Art Director
Year Title Type Rating
1940 Tsuma Yori Doko e Iku
Movie
0.0
1939 Onna no Tamashii
Movie
0.0
1938 Tsumi Naki Tsumi
Movie
0.0
1935 Koi no Ukishima
Movie
0.0
Movie
Year Title Role Rating
2000 By Player
Japanese Movie, 2000,
himself (Support Role)
himself
Support Role
7.0
TV Show
Year Title # Role Rating
2004 Cinemaholic
Japanese TV Show, 2004, 56 eps
(Guest)
56
Guest
0.0
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  • First Name: Kaneto
  • Family Name: Shindo
  • Native name: 新藤兼人
  • Also Known as: しんどう かねと, Shindou Kaneto, 新藤兼登
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: April 22, 1912
  • Died: May 29, 2012

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