Kaneto Shindo Filmes

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...

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

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 divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...

A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been...

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become...

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

Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth...

An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during...

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

A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

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

This is the story of a puppy that touched hundreds of millions of people around the world. Hachiko is a cute Chinese pastoral dog. He met his...

A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.

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...