Kaneto Shindō
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.
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Espantoso
2026 · Original Film Writer

Hachiko 2: Siempre a tu lado
2023 · Original Story

Japanese Cinema: New Territories
2011 · Self

Postcard
2010 · Director, Screenplay

Siempre a tu Lado: Hachiko
2009 · Original Film Writer

El profesor y sus tres alumnos
2008 · Director, Screenplay

The Battleship on the Ground
2007 · Screenplay, Adaptation

What's a Director?
2006

La lechuza
2003 · Director, Writer, Production Design

A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
2001 · Screenplay

El actor secundario
2000 · Director, Writer

The Perfect Education
1999 · Writer

Will to Live
1999 · Writer, Director

The Geisha House
1999 · Screenplay
Solitude Point
1998 · Screenplay

The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa
1996 · Screenplay

A Last Note
1995 · Director, Original Story, Screenplay

Faraway Sunset
1992 · Screenplay, Novel

The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992 · Director, Writer
ゼロの焦点
1991 · Screenplay

Crossroads in Tokyo
1991 · Screenplay

Don't Mind
1990 · Screenplay

Sakura-tai Chiru
1988 · Director, Writer

Hachiko
1987 · Story, Screenplay

Actress
1987 · Screenplay

Tree Without Leaves
1986 · Director, Original Story, Screenplay

Black Board
1986 · Writer, Director

The Horizon
1984 · Writer, Director

Tsumiki kuzushi
1983 · Screenplay

The Women of Osaka Castle
1983 · Screenplay

I Lived, But...
1983 · Self

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
1983 · Screenplay

Shadow Conspirator
1982 · Screenplay

Rennyo and His Mother
1981 · Writer

Edo Porn
1981 · Writer, Director

The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge
1981 · Screenplay

Drive for the Future
1980 · Screenplay

Magnitude 7.9
1980 · Screenplay

The Three Undelivered Letters
1979 · Screenplay

The Strangling
1979 · Director, Producer, Screenplay

Ameyuki-san
1979 · Teleplay
Horror of the Giant Vortex
1978 · Writer

The Incident
1978 · Screenplay
A Young Female Instructor
1978 · Screenplay

Dangerous Liaisons
1978 · Screenplay
Document 8.6
1977 · Director

The Life of Chikuzan
1977 · Director, Writer

The Perennial Weed
1975 · Screenplay

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1975 · Self, Writer, Director

My Way
1974 · Director, Writer

The Heart
1973 · Director, Writer, Producer

Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
1973 · Screenplay

Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
1973 · Writer

Hymn
1972 · Researcher, Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay

Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl
1972 · Screenplay

Kanawa
1972 · Producer, Director, Writer

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
1972 · Screenplay

Sweet Secret
1971 · Screenplay

The Battle of Okinawa
1971 · Screenplay

Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971 · Screenplay

Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970 · Director, Screenplay

Strange Affinity
1970 · Writer, Director

Heat Wave Island
1969 · Director, Screenplay

Devil's Temple
1969 · Writer

Thousand Cranes
1969 · Writer

Strong Women, Weak Men
1968 · Director, Screenplay

Kuroneko
1968 · Director, Screenplay

The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1968 · Writer

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967 · Screenplay
A Fallen Woman
1967 · Screenplay

Libido
1967 · Writer, Director

Two Wives
1967 · Screenplay

The Suitors
1967 · Screenplay

Drunken Harbor
1966 · Screenplay

Fighting Elegy
1966 · Screenplay

Dynamite Doctor Returns
1966 · Screenplay

Lost Sex
1966 · Producer, Director, Writer

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
1966 · Screenplay

Dynamite Doctor
1966 · Screenplay

Irezumi
1966 · Screenplay

Conquest
1965 · Director, Screenplay

Seisaku's Wife
1965 · Screenplay

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
1965 · Screenplay

Onibaba
1964 · Director, Art Direction, Screenplay

The Gorgeous Geisha
1964 · Writer

Camellia Gate
1964 · Adaptation

Manji
1964 · Screenplay

Suruga Yūkyōden: Gambling Hall Robbery
1964 · Screenplay

A Public Benefactor
1964 · Writer

Onibaba : Film Location
1964

Mother
1963 · Director, Writer, Production Design

The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji
1963 · Screenplay

Maiko and the Assassin
1963 · Screenplay

The Navy
1963 · Screenplay

When Women Lie
1963 · Writer

Elegant Beast
1962 · Screenplay, Original Story

Human
1962 · Writer, Director, Art Direction

Hell's Assassin
1962 · Screenplay

The Lucky General
1962 · Screenplay

The Whale God
1962 · Screenplay

Destiny's Son
1962 · Writer

This Madding Crowd
1962 · Screenplay

Ano sora no hate ni hoshi wa matataku
1962 · Screenplay

Sabakareru Echizen no kami
1962 · Screenplay

Black Lizard
1962 · Screenplay

Stolen Pleasure
1962 · Screenplay

Their Legacy
1962 · Writer

Her Devotion
1961 · Adaptation

Netsuai sha
1961 · Writer

Haitoku no mesu
1961 · Screenplay

As the Clouds Scatter
1961 · Screenplay

A Design for Dying
1961 · Screenplay

Challenge to Live
1961 · Screenplay

The Lovers
1961 · Director, Screenplay

The Matsukawa Incident
1961 · Screenplay

The Wayside Pebble
1960 · Screenplay

The Naked Island
1960 · Director, Producer, Writer, Production Design

Devotion to Railway
1960 · Screenplay

Master Fencer Sees the World
1960 · Screenplay

A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960 · Writer

A Nice Guy
1960 · Writer

The Gambling Samurai
1960 · Writer

The Great Road
1960 · Writer

The Bride from Japan
1959 · Writer, Director

The Aristocrat's Stairs
1959 · Adaptation

The Telephone Rings in the Evening
1959 · Screenplay

Break Down that Wall
1959 · Writer

Talented Woman
1959 · Screenplay

Diary of Forsaken Love
1959 · Writer

Lucky Dragon No. 5
1959 · Director, Screenplay

The Ladder of Success
1958 · Writer

The Naked Sun
1958 · Screenplay

Face in the Dark
1958 · Screenplay

A Grain of Wheat
1958 · Writer

The Lowest Man
1958 · Screenplay, Writer

Night Drum
1958 · Screenplay

The Precipice
1958 · Screenplay

Sorrow Is Only for Women
1958 · Director, Screenplay

Forbidden Lips
1958 · Screenplay

On This Earth
1957 · Writer

But the Flesh is Weak
1957 · Writer

Harbor Rats
1957 · Director, Screenplay

Who's the Real Killer
1957 · Writer

The Shadow Daughter
1957 · Writer

Actress
1956 · Screenplay, Director

Yonjū-hassai no teikō
1956 · Adaptation

Easy-Going Married Couple
1956 · Screenplay

The Shadow of Fear
1956 · Writer
How Sorrowful
1956 · Screenplay

Wandering Shore
1956 · Director, Writer

Wedding Day
1956 · Screenplay

Love is Lost
1956 · Director, Screenplay

Warriors of Ako: Scroll of Heaven, Scroll of Earth
1956 · Screenplay
The Motherless
1955 · Screenplay

The Beauty and the Dragon
1955 · Writer

If Indeed One Loves
1955 · Screenplay

The Wolves
1955 · Director, Screenplay

Sisters
1955 · Writer

Women of Ginza
1955 · Screenplay

Wakai hito-tachi
1954 · Writer

Turbid Youth
1954 · Screenplay

Ditch
1954 · Director, Screenplay

Cape Ashizuri
1954 · Executive Producer, Screenplay

Love and Duty
1954 · Writer

Life of a Woman
1953 · Director, Writer

To the Ends of the Earth
1953 · Adaptation

Before the Dawn
1953 · Screenplay, Executive Producer

Desire
1953 · Writer

Miniature
1953 · Director, Screenplay

Murahachibu
1953 · Writer

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953 · Writer

Reminiscence
1953 · Screenplay

Violence
1952 · Writer

Children of Hiroshima
1952 · Writer, Director

Sisters of Nishijin
1952 · Writer
Avalanche
1952 · Director, Screenplay

Izayoi kaidō
1951 · Screenplay

Tokyo Elegy
1951 · Screenplay

Story of a Beloved Wife
1951 · Director, Screenplay

Dancing Girl
1951 · Screenplay

Saijoke no kyoen
1951 · Screenplay

The Tale of Genji
1951 · Writer

Jōen no hatoba
1951 · Screenplay

Who Will Judge Me?
1951 · Writer

Freedom School
1951 · Screenplay

The White Orchid
1951 · Screenplay

Judge of the Ashuras
1951 · Screenplay

Clothes of Deception
1951 · Screenplay

Shojohou
1950 · Writer

The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950 · Screenplay

A Man from Akagi
1950 · Screenplay

The Bells of Nagasaki
1950 · Screenplay

The End of the War
1950 · Screenplay

Alps Story: The Wild
1950 · Writer

Pursuit At Dawn
1950 · Writer

Spring Snow
1950 · Screenplay

Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949 · Writer

Here's to the Young Lady
1949 · Writer

Flame of My Love
1949 · Screenplay

Jealousy
1949 · Writer

Kōfuku no genkai
1948 · Screenplay

The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1948 · Screenplay

Great X
1948 · Screenplay

The Man of Rumor
1948 · Screenplay

Temptation
1948 · Writer

The Ball at the Anjo House
1947 · Writer

Marriage
1947 · Screenplay

The Woman Who Holds the Key
1946 · Screenplay
Waiting Woman
1946 · Writer

Victory of Women
1946 · Screenplay

The 47 Ronin
1941 · Construction Coordinator
Otomebashi
1936 · Set Designer, Adaptation

