Kaneto Shindō
Kaneto Shindo (新藤 兼人, Shindō Kaneto, April 22, 1912 – May 29, 2012) was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and author. He was married to actress Nobuko Otowa (1925–1994), who appeared in several of his films. 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. His scripts were filmed by such directors as Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Fumio Kamei and Tadashi Imai. He won the 1996 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for A Last Note. Shindo was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, and he made several films about Hiroshima and the atomic bomb. Like his early mentor Kenji Mizoguchi, 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. Shindo made a series of autobiographical films, beginning with the first film he directed, 1951's Story of a Beloved Wife, about his struggle to become a screenwriter, through 1986's Tree Without Leaves, about his childhood, born into a wealthy family which became destitute, 2000's By Player, about his film company, seen through the eyes of his friend Taiji Tonoyama, and his last film, Postcard, directed at the age of 98, loosely based on his military service. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kaneto Shindō, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
(Screenplay)
The Naked Island
(Director)
Onibaba
(Art Direction)
The Naked Island
(Producer)
Onibaba
(Director)
The Iron Crown
(Producer)
Flame of My Love
(Screenplay)
Hachiko
(Screenplay)
Hachiko
(Story)
Kuroneko
(Director)
Forbidden Lips
(Screenplay)
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
(Writer)
Master Fencer Sees the World
(Screenplay)
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
(Writer)
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
(Director)
The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge
(Screenplay)
Owl
(Director)
The Beauty and the Dragon
(Writer)
Tsumiki kuzushi
(Screenplay)
The Perfect Education
(Writer)
Destiny's Son
(Writer)
Waiting Woman
(Writer)
Children of Hiroshima
(Writer)
Children of Hiroshima
(Director)
The Horizon
(Director)
The Horizon
(Writer)
Edo Porn
(Writer)
Edo Porn
(Director)
Hymn
(Director)
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
(Director)
A Last Note
(Director)
A Last Note
(Writer)
Human
(Writer)
Human
(Director)
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
(Screenplay)
Lucky Dragon No. 5
(Director)
The Heart
(Writer)
The Heart
(Director)
Here's to the Young Lady
(Writer)
The Ball at the Anjo House
(Writer)
Tree Without Leaves
(Director)
Mother
(Director)
Mother
(Writer)
Actress
(Writer)
Postcard
(Director)
The Bells of Nagasaki
(Screenplay)
Devil's Temple
(Writer)
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
(Director)
The Strangling
(Director)
A Fallen Woman
(Screenplay)
Conquest
(Director)
The Iron Crown
(Director)
The Iron Crown
(Writer)
Solitude Point
(Screenplay)
My Way
(Writer)
My Way
(Director)
Black Board
(Director)
Black Board
(Writer)
The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa
(Screenplay)
The Wolves
(Director)
The Ditch
(Director)
The Lowest Man
(Screenplay)
Owl
(Writer)
By Player
(Writer)
By Player
(Director)
Will to Live
(Director)
The Life of Chikuzan
(Director)
Will to Live
(Writer)
The Life of Chikuzan
(Writer)
Teacher and Three Children
(Director)
Story of a Beloved Wife
(Director)
Black Lizard
(Screenplay)
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
(Writer)
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
(Writer)
Wedding Day
(Screenplay)
Women of Ginza
(Screenplay)
駿河遊侠傳 賭場荒し
(Screenplay)
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
(Writer)
Spring Snow
(Screenplay)
Sweet Secret
(Screenplay)
Sakura-tai Chiru
(Director)
Miniature
(Director)
Pursuit At Dawn
(Writer)
Izayoi kaidō
(Screenplay)
Turbid youth
(Screenplay)
The Wayside Pebble
(Screenplay)
The Precipice
(Screenplay)
Hymn
(Writer)
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
(Screenplay)
The Lucky General
(Screenplay)
A Public Benefactor
(Writer)
Ryûri no kishi
(Director)
Heat Wave Island
(Director)
Heat Wave Island
(Writer)
Temptation
(Writer)
Rennyo and His Mother
(Writer)
The 47 Ronin
(Construction Coordinator)
Judge of the Ashuras
(Screenplay)
Clothes of Deception
(Screenplay)
A Man from Akagi
(Screenplay)
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
(Screenplay)
Marriage
(Screenplay)
Murahachibu
(Writer)
Dynamite Doctor
(Screenplay)
Drunken Harbor
(Screenplay)
Dynamite Doctor Returns
(Screenplay)
A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
(Screenplay)
Alps Story: The Wild
(Writer)
Hell's Assassin
(Screenplay)
Devotion to Railway
(Screenplay)
How Sorrowful
(Screenplay)
Cape Ashizuri
(Screenplay)
Cape Ashizuri
(Executive Producer)
Night Drum
(Screenplay)
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
(Screenplay)
Before Dawn
(Screenplay)
Before Dawn
(Executive Producer)
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
(Screenplay)
The Motherless
(Screenplay)
The Gambling Samurai
(Writer)
Kōfuku no genkai
(Screenplay)
Sisters
(Writer)
Hymn
(Executive Producer)
The Wolves
(Screenplay)
Tree Without Leaves
(Original Story)
Tree Without Leaves
(Screenplay)
The Ditch
(Screenplay)
Story of a Beloved Wife
(Screenplay)
Conquest
(Screenplay)
Dancing Girl
(Screenplay)
Break Down that Wall
(Writer)
Who's The Real Killer
(Writer)
The Flesh Is Weak
(Writer)
Harbor Rats
(Screenplay)
Harbor Rats
(Director)
Ryûri no kishi
(Writer)
Libido
(Writer)
Libido
(Director)
Ai Sureba Koso
(Screenplay)
Great X
(Screenplay)
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
(Screenplay)
The Woman Who Holds the Key
(Screenplay)
The Shadow of Fear
(Writer)
Thousand Cranes
(Writer)
Hachiko
(Original Story)
Document 8.6
(Director)
Strong Women, Weak Men
(Writer)
Strong Women, Weak Men
(Director)
Owl
(Production Design)
Mother
(Production Design)
The Naked Island
(Writer)
The Naked Island
(Production Design)
Onibaba
(Screenplay)
Horror of the Giant Vortex
(Writer)
Sabakareru Echizen no kami
(Screenplay)
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
(Writer)
The Strangling
(Producer)
As the Clouds Scatter
(Screenplay)
A Grain of Wheat
(Writer)
Two Wives
(Screenplay)
Don't Mind
(Screenplay)
Reminiscence
(Screenplay)
Sisters of Nishijin
(Writer)
Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl
(Screenplay)
Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
(Writer)
Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
(Director)
The Perennial Weed
(Screenplay)
The Incident
(Screenplay)
The Women of Osaka Castle
(Screenplay)
Face in the Dark
(Screenplay)
あの空の果てに星はまたたく
(Screenplay)
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
(Screenplay)
The Naked Sun
(Screenplay)
Human
(Art Direction)
Seisaku's Wife
(Screenplay)
Irezumi
(Screenplay)
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
(Screenplay)
Love is Lost
(Director)
Challenge to Live
(Screenplay)
Stolen Pleasure
(Screenplay)
Manji
(Screenplay)
Love is Lost
(Screenplay)
Victory of Women
(Screenplay)
Teacher and Three Children
(Screenplay)
Postcard
(Screenplay)
The Battleship on the Ground
(Screenplay)
Diary of Forsaken Love
(Writer)
The Three Undelivered Letters
(Writer)
Lost Sex
(Producer)
Lost Sex
(Writer)
Lost Sex
(Director)
The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji
(Screenplay)
The Heart
(Producer)
Kuroneko
(Screenplay)
A Young Female Instructor
(Screenplay)
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
(Screenplay)
Strange Affinity
(Writer)
Strange Affinity
(Director)
The Navy
(Screenplay)
Love and Duty
(Writer)
The Whale God
(Screenplay)
Maiko and the Assassin
(Screenplay)
Saijo katagi
(Screenplay)
Their Legacy
(Writer)
The Lowest Man
(Writer)
The Geisha House
(Screenplay)
The Battleship on the Ground
(Adaptation)
Dangerous Liaisons
(Screenplay)
The Matsukawa Incident
(Screenplay)
The Tale of Genji
(Writer)
Miniature
(Screenplay)
Fighting Elegy
(Screenplay)
Faraway Sunset
(Screenplay)
A Design for Dying
(Screenplay)
Actress
(Screenplay)
Actress
(Director)
Elegant Beast
(Screenplay)
Ishimatsu of the Forest
(Writer)
This Madding Crowd
(Screenplay)
The Ladder of Success
(Writer)
On This Earth
(Writer)
When Women Lie
(Writer)
The White Orchid
(Screenplay)
Who Will Judge Me?
(Writer)
The Battle of Okinawa
(Screenplay)
Sakura-tai Chiru
(Writer)
Sorrow Is Only for Women
(Director)
Onna no issho
(Director)
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
(Original Film Writer)
Faraway Sunset
(Story)
The Strangling
(Screenplay)
The Great Road
(Writer)
Shadow Conspirator
(Screenplay)
Crossroads in Tokyo
(Screenplay)
Onna no issho
(Writer)
Drive for the Future
(Screenplay)
Haitoku no mesu
(Screenplay)
Warriors of Ako: Scroll of Heaven, Scroll of Earth
(Screenplay)
Yokubo
(Writer)
Violence
(Writer)
Shojohou
(Writer)
Lucky Dragon No. 5
(Screenplay)
Magnitude 7.9
(Screenplay)
Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
(Writer)
Bijin Koroshi Series
(Writer)