Kaneto Shindō
- Directing
- April 22, 1912 · Hiroshima, Japan
- May 29, 2012
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kaneto Shindō, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known for
Filmography
- The Dreadful · Original Film Writer
- Hachiko · Story
- Japanese Cinema: New Territories · Self
- Postcard · Director, Screenplay
- Hachi: A Dog's Tale · Original Film Writer
- Teacher and Three Children · Director, Screenplay
- The Battleship on the Ground · Screenplay, Adaptation
- What's a Director?
- Owl · Director, Writer
- A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River · Screenplay
- By Player · Director, Writer
- The Perfect Education · Writer
- Will to Live · Writer, Director
- The Geisha House · Screenplay
- Solitude Point · Screenplay
- The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa · Screenplay
- A Last Note · Director, Story
- Faraway Sunset · Screenplay, Novel
- The Strange Tale of Oyuki · Director, Writer
- ゼロの焦点 · Screenplay
- Crossroads in Tokyo · Screenplay
- Don't Mind · Screenplay
- Sakura-tai Chiru · Director, Writer
- Hachiko · Story, Screenplay
- Actress · Screenplay
- Tree Without Leaves · Director, Story
- Black Board · Writer, Director
- The Horizon · Writer, Director
- Tsumiki kuzushi · Screenplay
- The Women of Osaka Castle · Screenplay
- I Lived, But... · Self
- Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha · Screenplay
- Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun · Writer
- Shadow Conspirator · Screenplay
- Bijin Koroshi Series · Writer
- Rennyo and His Mother · Writer
- Edo Porn · Writer, Director
- The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge · Screenplay
- Drive for the Future · Screenplay
- Magnitude 7.9 · Screenplay
- The Three Undelivered Letters · Screenplay
- The Strangling · Director, Producer
- The 47 Ronins of Ako · Screenplay
- Ameyuki-san · Teleplay
- Horror of the Giant Vortex · Writer
- The Incident · Screenplay
- A Young Female Instructor · Screenplay
- Dangerous Liaisons · Screenplay
- Document 8.6 · Director
- The Life of Chikuzan · Director, Writer
- The Perennial Weed · Screenplay
- Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director · Self, Writer
- My Way · Director, Writer
- The Heart · Director, Writer
- Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby · Screenplay
- Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer · Writer
- Hymn · Researcher, Director
- Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl · Screenplay
- Kanawa · Producer, Director
- Under the Flag of the Rising Sun · Screenplay
- Sweet Secret · Screenplay
- The Battle of Okinawa · Screenplay
- Evil Spirits in the Darkness · Screenplay
- Live Today, Die Tomorrow! · Director, Screenplay
- Strange Affinity · Writer, Director
- Heat Wave Island · Director, Screenplay
- Devil's Temple · Writer
- Thousand Cranes · Writer
- Strong Women, Weak Men · Director, Screenplay
- Kuroneko · Director, Screenplay
- The House of the Sleeping Virgins · Writer
- The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka · Screenplay
- A Fallen Woman · Screenplay
- Libido · Writer, Director
- Two Wives · Screenplay
- The Suitors · Screenplay
- Drunken Harbor · Screenplay
- Fighting Elegy · Screenplay
- Dynamite Doctor Returns · Screenplay
- Lost Sex · Producer, Director