Kaneto Shindō Movies

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

Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises...

In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...

In 1880s Japan, women's struggle for equality rages on. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

A 1948 Japanese film.

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

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.

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish...

Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association

A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they...

A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to...

Third film of the yoidore hakase series

The story opens with Yukiko and her business partner in Moscow searching for Russian items for their store in Tokyo. There they meet a Russian...

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

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...

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