Kaneto Shindō Movies

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover...

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

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 mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to...

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...

A seafaring man who hates women and a barmaid who hates men… drawn together and torn apart by a strange twist of fate… a melodrama of...

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...

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both...

A literary masterpiece that sharply critiques the ethics of modern romance, featuring a 48-year-old father who burns through the last of his youth...

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...

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

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

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

A conflict between parents and their delinquent daughter.

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually,...

A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his...