Kaneto Shindo Video | Clips from Films Directed and Interviews

Kaneto Shindo (新藤 兼人, Shindō Kaneto, born April 22, 1912), Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and author. He has directed 47 films and written 238 scripts. His best known films as a director include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note. His scripts have been filmed by such directors as Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Fumio Kamei and Tadashi Imai. Shindo has made several films about Hiroshima and the atomic bomb. Like his early mentor Kenji Mizoguchi, many of his works feature strong female... MORE

Kaneto Shindo (新藤 兼人, Shindō Kaneto, born April 22, 1912), Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and author. He has directed 47 films and written 238 scripts. His best known films as a director include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note. His scripts have been filmed by such directors as Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Fumio Kamei and Tadashi Imai. Shindo has made several films about Hiroshima and the atomic bomb. Like his early mentor Kenji Mizoguchi, many of his works feature strong female characters. Shindo was born in 1912 in the Saeki District of Hiroshima Prefecture. He was the youngest of four children. His family were wealthy landowners. His father went bankrupt after acting as a loan guarantor. His older brother and two sisters went to find work, and he and his mother and father lived in a storehouse. His mother became an agricultural labourer and then died during his early childhood. His older brother was good at judo and became a policeman. One of his sisters became a nurse and would go on to work caring for atom bomb victims. The other sister married a Japanese-American and went to live in the LESS