Kaneto Shindō Movies

The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

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

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...

1950 Japanese film

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

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

One night, Genjiro Tsurumi, a former ronin comes across a man being attacked by a group of assassins. The dying man is an official secret agent...

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...

Waiting woman

After a mine collapses and leaves her husband employed, Fumiko moves to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko and becomes a hostess.

Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.

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....

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

This documentary by Hubert Niogret looks at the revival of Japanese cinema during the 1990s.

Documentary on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Shindo personally interviews survivors and attempts to interview the commander of the B-29 that...