Kaneto Shindō

from Hiroshima, Japan

Artwork for Onibaba : Film LocationImage of Kaneto Shindō

Biography

Kaneto Shindo (新藤 兼人, Shindō Kaneto, April 22, 1912 – May 29, 2012) was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and author. He was married to actress Nobuko Otowa (1925–1994), who appeared in several of his films. He directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note. His scripts were filmed by such directors as Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Fumio Kamei and Tadashi Imai. He won the 1996 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for A Last Note.

Shindo was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, and he made several films about Hiroshima and the atomic bomb. Like his early mentor Kenji Mizoguchi, many of his films feature strong female characters. He was a pioneer of independent film production in Japan, founding a company called Kindai Eiga Kyokai. He continued working as a scriptwriter, director and author until his death at the age of 100.

Shindo made a series of autobiographical films, beginning with the first film he directed, 1951's Story of a Beloved Wife, about his struggle to become a screenwriter, through 1986's Tree Without Leaves, about his childhood, born into a wealthy family which became destitute, 2000's By Player, about his film company, seen through the eyes of his friend Taiji Tonoyama, and his last film, Postcard, directed at the age of 98, loosely based on his military service.

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Timeline

2026Aged 114

  • Poster for The Dreadful

    Original Film Writer

2023Aged 111

  • Poster for Hachiko

    Original Story

2011Aged 99

  • Poster for Japanese Cinema: New Territories

    Self

2010Aged 98

  • Poster for Postcard

    Screenplay

2009Aged 97

  • Poster for Hachi: A Dog's Tale

    Original Film Writer

2008Aged 96

  • Poster for Teacher and Three Children

    Screenplay

2007Aged 95

  • Poster for The Battleship on the Ground

    Screenplay

2006Aged 94

  • Poster for What's a Director?

    (Unknown)

2003Aged 91

  • Poster for Owl

    Production Design

2001Aged 89

  • Poster for A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River

    Screenplay

2000Aged 88

  • Poster for By Player

    Writer

1999Aged 87

  • Poster for The Geisha House

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Will to Live

    Writer

  • Poster for The Perfect Education

    Writer

1998Aged 86

1996Aged 84

  • Poster for The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa

    Screenplay

1995Aged 83

  • Poster for A Last Note

    Screenplay

1992Aged 80

  • Poster for The Strange Tale of Oyuki

    Writer

  • Poster for Faraway Sunset

    Novel

1991Aged 79

1990Aged 78

  • Poster for Don't Mind

    Screenplay

1988Aged 76

  • Poster for Sakura-tai Chiru

    Writer

1987Aged 75

  • Poster for Actress

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Hachiko

    Screenplay

1986Aged 74

  • Poster for Black Board

    Writer

  • Poster for Tree Without Leaves

    Screenplay

1984Aged 72

  • Poster for The Horizon

    Writer

1983Aged 71

  • Poster for I Lived, But...

    Self

  • Poster for Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Women of Osaka Castle

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Tsumiki kuzushi

    Screenplay

1982Aged 70

  • Poster for Shadow Conspirator

    Screenplay

1981Aged 69

  • Poster for The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Edo Porn

    Writer

  • Poster for Rennyo and His Mother

    Writer

1980Aged 68

  • Poster for Magnitude 7.9

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Drive for the Future

    Screenplay

1979Aged 67

  • Poster for Ameyuki-san

    Teleplay

  • Poster for The Strangling

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Three Undelivered Letters

    Screenplay

1978Aged 66

1977Aged 65

1975Aged 63

  • Poster for Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

    Self

  • Poster for The Perennial Weed

    Screenplay

1974Aged 62

  • Poster for My Way

    Writer

1973Aged 61

  • Poster for Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer

    Writer

  • Poster for Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Heart

    Producer

1972Aged 60

  • Poster for Hymn

    Researcher

  • Poster for Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Kanawa

    Producer

  • Poster for Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl

    Screenplay

1971Aged 59

  • Poster for Evil Spirits in the Darkness

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Battle of Okinawa

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Sweet Secret

    Screenplay

1970Aged 58

  • Poster for Strange Affinity

    Writer

  • Poster for Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

    Screenplay

1969Aged 57

  • Poster for Thousand Cranes

    Writer

  • Poster for Devil's Temple

    Writer

  • Poster for Heat Wave Island

    Screenplay

1968Aged 56

  • Poster for The House of the Sleeping Virgins

    Writer

  • Poster for Kuroneko

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Strong Women, Weak Men

    Screenplay

1967Aged 55

1966Aged 54

  • Poster for Irezumi

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Dynamite Doctor

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Zatoichi's Pilgrimage

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Lost Sex

    Producer

  • Poster for Dynamite Doctor Returns

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Fighting Elegy

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Drunken Harbor

    Screenplay

1965Aged 53

  • Poster for Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Seisaku's Wife

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Conquest

    Screenplay

1964Aged 52

  • Poster for Onibaba : Film Location

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for A Public Benefactor

    Writer

  • Poster for Suruga Yūkyōden: Gambling Hall Robbery

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Manji

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Camellia Gate

    Adaptation

  • Poster for The Gorgeous Geisha

    Writer

  • Poster for Onibaba

    Screenplay

1963Aged 51

  • Poster for When Women Lie

    Writer

  • Poster for The Navy

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Maiko and the Assassin

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Mother

    Production Design

1962Aged 50

  • Poster for Their Legacy

    Writer

  • Poster for Stolen Pleasure

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Black Lizard

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Sabakareru Echizen no kami

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Ano sora no hate ni hoshi wa matataku

    Screenplay

  • Poster for This Madding Crowd

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Destiny's Son

    Writer

  • Poster for The Whale God

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Lucky General

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Hell's Assassin

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Human

    Art Direction

  • Poster for Elegant Beast

    Original Story

1961Aged 49

  • Poster for The Matsukawa Incident

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Lovers

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Challenge to Live

    Screenplay

  • Poster for A Design for Dying

    Screenplay

  • Poster for As the Clouds Scatter

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Haitoku no mesu

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Netsuai sha

    Writer

1960Aged 48

  • Poster for The Great Road

    Writer

  • Poster for The Gambling Samurai

    Writer

  • Poster for A Nice Guy

    Writer

  • Poster for A Woman’s Uphill Slope

    Writer

  • Poster for Master Fencer Sees the World

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Devotion to Railway

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Naked Island

    Production Design

  • Poster for The Wayside Pebble

    Screenplay

1959Aged 47

  • Poster for Lucky Dragon No. 5

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Diary of Forsaken Love

    Writer

  • Poster for Talented Woman

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Break Down that Wall

    Writer

  • Poster for The Telephone Rings in the Evening

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Aristocrat's Stairs

    Adaptation

  • Poster for The Bride from Japan

    Writer

1958Aged 46

  • Poster for Forbidden Lips

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Sorrow Is Only for Women

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Precipice

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Night Drum

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Lowest Man

    Screenplay

  • Poster for A Grain of Wheat

    Writer

  • Poster for Face in the Dark

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Naked Sun

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Ladder of Success

    Writer

1957Aged 45

  • Poster for The Shadow Daughter

    Writer

  • Poster for Who's the Real Killer

    Writer

  • Poster for Harbor Rats

    Director

  • Poster for But the Flesh is Weak

    Writer

  • Poster for On This Earth

    Writer

1956Aged 44

  • Poster for Warriors of Ako: Scroll of Heaven, Scroll of Earth

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Wedding Day

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Love is Lost

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Wandering Shore

    Writer

  • How Sorrowful

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Shadow of Fear

    Writer

  • Poster for Easy-Going Married Couple

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Yonjū-hassai no teikō

    Adaptation

  • Poster for Actress

    Screenplay

1955Aged 43

1954Aged 42

  • Poster for Love and Duty

    Writer

  • Poster for Cape Ashizuri

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Ditch

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Turbid Youth

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Wakai hito-tachi

    Writer

1953Aged 41

  • Poster for Reminiscence

    Screenplay

  • Poster for A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land

    Writer

  • Poster for Murahachibu

    Writer

  • Poster for Miniature

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Desire

    Writer

  • Poster for Before the Dawn

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for To the Ends of the Earth

    Adaptation

  • Poster for Life of a Woman

    Writer

1952Aged 40

1951Aged 39

  • Poster for Clothes of Deception

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Judge of the Ashuras

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The White Orchid

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Freedom School

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Who Will Judge Me?

    Writer

  • Poster for Jōen no hatoba

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Tale of Genji

    Writer

  • Poster for Saijoke no kyoen

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Dancing Girl

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Story of a Beloved Wife

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Tokyo Elegy

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Izayoi kaidō

    Screenplay

1950Aged 38

  • Poster for Spring Snow

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Pursuit At Dawn

    Writer

  • Poster for Alps Story: The Wild

    Writer

  • Poster for The End of the War

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Bells of Nagasaki

    Screenplay

  • Poster for A Man from Akagi

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Rainbow-Colored Flower

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Shojohou

    Writer

1949Aged 37

  • Poster for Jealousy

    Writer

  • Poster for Flame of My Love

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Here's to the Young Lady

    Writer

  • Poster for Ishimatsu of the Forest

    Writer

1948Aged 36

  • Poster for Temptation

    Writer

  • Poster for The Man of Rumor

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Great X

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Most Beautiful Day of My Life

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Kōfuku no genkai

    Screenplay

1947Aged 35

  • Poster for Marriage

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Ball at the Anjo House

    Writer

1946Aged 34

1941Aged 29

  • Poster for The 47 Ronin

    Construction Coordinator

1936Aged 24

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