Kaneto Shindō Movies

A junior high school teacher is raped by several students inside the school.

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...

Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to...

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

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

aka Libido.

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause...

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant

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...

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life....

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

After a mine collapses and leaves her husband employed, Fumiko moves to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko and becomes a hostess.

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish...

The film portrays the experiences of Takashi Nagai as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.