Tag Archives: Kaneto Shindô

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 »

Dependent on the Noh play with the identical title, The Iron Crown is about a girl plotting revenge against her husband that leaves her for a younger girl. Read More »

Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. Read More »

Ginko, the daughter of a poor shoemaker Ginzo, a child was sold to a geisha. From a student she became a real geisha and made her debut under the name of “Peony”. Read More »

The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.
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