Kaneto Shindō Movies

Fusako, a girl raised in a geisha house, tries to escape her dark past and faces repeated heartbreaks. After an unexpected pregnancy, she has an...

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

​A powerful priest uses his magical abilities to imprison the rain gods within a waterfall, causing a devastating drought. The imperial court...

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...

Because there was no bridge over the large river flowing between two villages, the villagers had to rely on a rope to cross, risking their lives each...

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were...

Japanese drama film.

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for...

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century epistolary novel 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' is adapted to a contemporary setting. An abominable and burning...

Writer/Director Kaneto Shindô recounts his time spent in the Japanese Navy in WWII. He tells about the harsh training, grueling conditions, and...

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Set in downtown Tokyo, it depicts the activities of a weak youth baseball team, the Chidori Boys, and the ordinary people who live there.

Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and child.

1962 Japanese movie

A three parts movie following people forgotten by a society that modernizes at the price of expelling part of its individuals.

A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.

A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Yomiuri Television and the...

A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.

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