Kaneto Shindō Movies

A 1948 Japanese film.

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

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

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

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

19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while taking up arms to overthrow the local shogunate.

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

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...

Third film of the yoidore hakase series

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

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

One night, Genjiro Tsurumi, a former ronin comes across a man being attacked by a group of assassins. The dying man is an official secret agent...

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...

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with...

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

Magistrate Toyama no Kin-san is ordered to catch the phantom thief Nezumi Kozo, who is robbing daimyo and wealthy townspeople. Under the name of...

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...

Shochiku melodrama about the lives of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.