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.
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Movies (212)
Espantoso
2026 · Original Film Writer
Hachiko
2023 · Original Story
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
2011 · Self
Postcard
2010 · Director, Screenplay
Siempre a tu Lado: Hachiko
2009 · Original Film Writer
Teacher and Three Children
2008 · Director, Screenplay
The Battleship on the Ground
2007 · Screenplay, Adaptation
What's a Director?
2006
Owl
2003 · Director, Writer, Production Design
A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
2001 · Screenplay
By Player
2000 · Director, Writer
The Perfect Education
1999 · Writer
Will to Live
1999 · Writer, Director
The Geisha House
1999 · Screenplay
Solitude Point
1998 · Screenplay
The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa
1996 · Screenplay
A Last Note
1995 · Director, Original Story, Screenplay
Faraway Sunset
1992 · Screenplay, Novel
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992 · Director, Writer
ゼロの焦点
1991 · Screenplay
Crossroads in Tokyo
1991 · Screenplay
Don't Mind
1990 · Screenplay
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988 · Director, Writer
Hachiko
1987 · Story, Screenplay
Actress
1987 · Screenplay
Tree Without Leaves
1986 · Director, Original Story, Screenplay
Black Board
1986 · Writer, Director
The Horizon
1984 · Writer, Director
Tsumiki kuzushi
1983 · Screenplay
The Women of Osaka Castle
1983 · Screenplay
I Lived, But...
1983 · Self
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
1983 · Screenplay
Shadow Conspirator
1982 · Screenplay
Rennyo and His Mother
1981 · Writer
Edo Porn
1981 · Writer, Director
The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge
1981 · Screenplay
Drive for the Future
1980 · Screenplay
Magnitude 7.9
1980 · Screenplay
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979 · Screenplay
The Strangling
1979 · Director, Producer, Screenplay
Ameyuki-san
1979 · Teleplay
Horror of the Giant Vortex
1978 · Writer
The Incident
1978 · Screenplay
A Young Female Instructor
1978 · Screenplay
Dangerous Liaisons
1978 · Screenplay
Document 8.6
1977 · Director
The Life of Chikuzan
1977 · Director, Writer
The Perennial Weed
1975 · Screenplay
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1975 · Self, Writer, Director
My Way
1974 · Director, Writer
The Heart
1973 · Director, Writer, Producer
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
1973 · Screenplay
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
1973 · Writer
Hymn
1972 · Researcher, Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay
Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl
1972 · Screenplay
Kanawa
1972 · Producer, Director, Writer
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
1972 · Screenplay
Sweet Secret
1971 · Screenplay
The Battle of Okinawa
1971 · Screenplay
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971 · Screenplay
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970 · Director, Screenplay
Strange Affinity
1970 · Writer, Director
Heat Wave Island
1969 · Director, Screenplay
Devil's Temple
1969 · Writer
Thousand Cranes
1969 · Writer
Strong Women, Weak Men
1968 · Director, Screenplay
Kuroneko
1968 · Director, Screenplay
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1968 · Writer
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967 · Screenplay
A Fallen Woman
1967 · Screenplay
Libido
1967 · Writer, Director
Two Wives
1967 · Screenplay
The Suitors
1967 · Screenplay
Drunken Harbor
1966 · Screenplay
Fighting Elegy
1966 · Screenplay
Dynamite Doctor Returns
1966 · Screenplay
Lost Sex
1966 · Producer, Director, Writer
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
1966 · Screenplay
Dynamite Doctor
1966 · Screenplay
Irezumi
1966 · Screenplay
Conquest
1965 · Director, Screenplay
Seisaku's Wife
1965 · Screenplay
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
1965 · Screenplay
Onibaba
1964 · Director, Art Direction, Screenplay
The Gorgeous Geisha
1964 · Writer
Camellia Gate
1964 · Adaptation
Manji
1964 · Screenplay
Suruga Yūkyōden: Gambling Hall Robbery
1964 · Screenplay
A Public Benefactor
1964 · Writer
Onibaba : Film Location
1964
Mother
1963 · Director, Writer, Production Design
The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji
1963 · Screenplay
Maiko and the Assassin
1963 · Screenplay
The Navy
1963 · Screenplay
When Women Lie
1963 · Writer
Elegant Beast
1962 · Screenplay, Original Story
Human
1962 · Writer, Director, Art Direction
Hell's Assassin
1962 · Screenplay
The Lucky General
1962 · Screenplay
The Whale God
1962 · Screenplay
Destiny's Son
1962 · Writer
This Madding Crowd
1962 · Screenplay
Ano sora no hate ni hoshi wa matataku
1962 · Screenplay
Sabakareru Echizen no kami
1962 · Screenplay
Black Lizard
1962 · Screenplay
Stolen Pleasure
1962 · Screenplay
Their Legacy
1962 · Writer
Her Devotion
1961 · Adaptation
Netsuai sha
1961 · Writer
Haitoku no mesu
1961 · Screenplay
As the Clouds Scatter
1961 · Screenplay
A Design for Dying
1961 · Screenplay
Challenge to Live
1961 · Screenplay
The Lovers
1961 · Director, Screenplay
The Matsukawa Incident
1961 · Screenplay
The Wayside Pebble
1960 · Screenplay
The Naked Island
1960 · Director, Producer, Writer, Production Design
Devotion to Railway
1960 · Screenplay
Master Fencer Sees the World
1960 · Screenplay
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960 · Writer
A Nice Guy
1960 · Writer
The Gambling Samurai
1960 · Writer
The Great Road
1960 · Writer
The Bride from Japan
1959 · Writer, Director
The Aristocrat's Stairs
1959 · Adaptation
The Telephone Rings in the Evening
1959 · Screenplay
Break Down that Wall
1959 · Writer
Talented Woman
1959 · Screenplay
Diary of Forsaken Love
1959 · Writer
Lucky Dragon No. 5
1959 · Director, Screenplay
The Ladder of Success
1958 · Writer
The Naked Sun
1958 · Screenplay
Face in the Dark
1958 · Screenplay
A Grain of Wheat
1958 · Writer
The Lowest Man
1958 · Screenplay, Writer
Night Drum
1958 · Screenplay
The Precipice
1958 · Screenplay
Sorrow Is Only for Women
1958 · Director, Screenplay
Forbidden Lips
1958 · Screenplay
On This Earth
1957 · Writer
But the Flesh is Weak
1957 · Writer
Harbor Rats
1957 · Director, Screenplay
Who's the Real Killer
1957 · Writer
The Shadow Daughter
1957 · Writer
Actress
1956 · Screenplay, Director
Yonjū-hassai no teikō
1956 · Adaptation
Easy-Going Married Couple
1956 · Screenplay
The Shadow of Fear
1956 · Writer
How Sorrowful
1956 · Screenplay
Wandering Shore
1956 · Director, Writer
Wedding Day
1956 · Screenplay
Love is Lost
1956 · Director, Screenplay
Warriors of Ako: Scroll of Heaven, Scroll of Earth
1956 · Screenplay
The Motherless
1955 · Screenplay
The Beauty and the Dragon
1955 · Writer
If Indeed One Loves
1955 · Screenplay
The Wolves
1955 · Director, Screenplay
Sisters
1955 · Writer
Women of Ginza
1955 · Screenplay
Wakai hito-tachi
1954 · Writer
Turbid Youth
1954 · Screenplay
Ditch
1954 · Director, Screenplay
Cape Ashizuri
1954 · Executive Producer, Screenplay
Love and Duty
1954 · Writer
Life of a Woman
1953 · Director, Writer
To the Ends of the Earth
1953 · Adaptation
Before the Dawn
1953 · Screenplay, Executive Producer
Desire
1953 · Writer
Miniature
1953 · Director, Screenplay
Murahachibu
1953 · Writer
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953 · Writer
Reminiscence
1953 · Screenplay
Violence
1952 · Writer
Children of Hiroshima
1952 · Writer, Director
Sisters of Nishijin
1952 · Writer
Avalanche
1952 · Director, Screenplay
Izayoi kaidō
1951 · Screenplay
Tokyo Elegy
1951 · Screenplay
Story of a Beloved Wife
1951 · Director, Screenplay
Dancing Girl
1951 · Screenplay
Saijoke no kyoen
1951 · Screenplay
The Tale of Genji
1951 · Writer
Jōen no hatoba
1951 · Screenplay
Who Will Judge Me?
1951 · Writer
Freedom School
1951 · Screenplay
The White Orchid
1951 · Screenplay
Judge of the Ashuras
1951 · Screenplay
Clothes of Deception
1951 · Screenplay
Shojohou
1950 · Writer
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950 · Screenplay
A Man from Akagi
1950 · Screenplay
The Bells of Nagasaki
1950 · Screenplay
The End of the War
1950 · Screenplay
Alps Story: The Wild
1950 · Writer
Pursuit At Dawn
1950 · Writer
Spring Snow
1950 · Screenplay
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949 · Writer
Here's to the Young Lady
1949 · Writer
Flame of My Love
1949 · Screenplay
Jealousy
1949 · Writer
Kōfuku no genkai
1948 · Screenplay
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1948 · Screenplay
Great X
1948 · Screenplay
The Man of Rumor
1948 · Screenplay
Temptation
1948 · Writer
The Ball at the Anjo House
1947 · Writer
Marriage
1947 · Screenplay
The Woman Who Holds the Key
1946 · Screenplay
Waiting Woman
1946 · Writer
Victory of Women
1946 · Screenplay
The 47 Ronin
1941 · Construction Coordinator
Otomebashi
1936 · Set Designer, Adaptation
