Tag Archives: Kaneto Shindô

Film inspired by the life of Japanese actor Taiji Tonoyama, with whom Kaneto Shindo Read More »

Shindo’s directorial debut is the fictionalized account of the death of his first wife. Read More »

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin Read More »

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day Read More »

The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. Read More »

A woman and her daughter-in-law are raped and murdered by samurais during the time of civil war. Read More »

Tamiko is a divorced mother with a seriously ill son, struggling to save him and give both a sense of their existence. Read More »

Based on a true story, an elderly women resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband’s dead body Read More »

Toku, a factory worker (Taiji Tonoyama) gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), who then follows him home. Read More »

Taking up the argument of ‘Onibaba’ (1964), the nonagenarian Director Kaneto Shindo places the action in the eighties Read More »

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru (“Lucky Dragon No. 5”) sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. Read More »

After leaving high school, Michio Yamada (Norio Nagayama in the real life incidents) becomes involved in the shudan shushoku Read More »

Chikuzan Takahashi, in his late sixties at the time of filming, is a blind musician who has spent most of his life on the roads of Northern Japan Read More »

Adaptation of Natsume Soseki’s classic novel in a modern setting. Read More »

A few years after the surrender of Japan in the Second World War. Read More »