Kaneto Shindō Movies

Japanese horror move from 1978.

Rica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thinks as trouble always seems to find her. Rica's...

Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie

In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his...

A biographical drama depicting the life full of love and suffering of the writer and poet Kenji Miyazawa, who celebrated his 100th birthday in 1996.

1962 Japanese movie

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

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

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

A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.

Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo during the Edo period. His exploits have been...

This documentary by Hubert Niogret looks at the revival of Japanese cinema during the 1990s.

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.

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

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

The film portrays the experiences of Takashi Nagai as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.