Kaneto Shindō Movies

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...

A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night.

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his...

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel...

After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The...

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring...

After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shamisen player and folk-song collector named...

A conflict between parents and their delinquent daughter.

Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from...

The cunning detective Kogoro Akechi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student...

This documentary by Hubert Niogret looks at the revival of Japanese cinema during the 1990s.

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional...

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.