Kaneto Shindō Movies

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

Yukie is a romance story about an American veteran (Bo Swenson) of the Korean War veteran and his undying love for a beautiful Japanese nurse named...

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

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

A biographical drama depicting the life full of love and suffering of the writer and poet Kenji Miyazawa, who celebrated his 100th birthday in 1996.

A gripping and entertaining historical drama that follows the actions of the thief Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi during the Edo period.

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .

A 1948 Japanese film.

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

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

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

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

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...

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenament called the Ryuheiso.

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant