Kaneto Shindō Movies

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

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

1962 Japanese movie

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

A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that...

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...

After an elderly man is discharged from a hospital following a misunderstood, life-affirming impulse toward a fellow patient, he finds himself caught...

A conflict between parents and their delinquent daughter.

This film focuses on the dramatic life of Waka Yamada, who rose from a prostitute in Seattle, USA to a female critic during the Taisho and Showa eras.

A seafaring man who hates women and a barmaid who hates men… drawn together and torn apart by a strange twist of fate… a melodrama of...

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

Nobuko Otowa plays 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...

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its...