Kaneto Shindō Movies

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl...

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old...

Japanese drama film.

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

A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Yomiuri Television and the...

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The...

A three parts movie following people forgotten by a society that modernizes at the price of expelling part of its individuals.

A 1948 Japanese film.

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

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...

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...

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with...

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.

Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with...

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

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