CYCLE: DIRECTOR

From 24.09. To 02.10.2007.

Contemporary Japanese films

Kaneto Shindô

28.04.1912, Hiroshima

 

Director

Shindô is a Japanese screenwriter and director who wrote more than screenplays and directed 43 of them. He made his directing debut with the intimate film Story of a Beloved Wife (Aisai monogatari, 1951). Afterwards he made Children of Hiroshima (Gembaku no ko, 1952), Wolf (Okami, 1955), An Actress (Joyu, 1956), Lucky Dragon No. 5 (Daigo Fukuryu-Mayu, 1958), Naked Island (Hadaka no shima, 1960), Devil Woman (Onibaba, 1964), The Black Cat (Yabu no naka no kuroneko, 1968), Love Betrayed (Kokoro, 1973), The Life of Chikuzan (Chikuzan hitori tabi, 1977), The Horizon (Chihei-sen, 1984), A Last Note (Gogo no Yuigon-jo, 1995), By Player (Sanmon yakusha, 2000), Owl (Fukuro, 2003).

Filmography

Ichimai no hagaki (2010)
Ishiuchi jinjô kôtô shôgakkô: Hana wa chiredomo (2008)
Fukurô (2003)
Sanmon yakusha (2000)
Ikitai (1999)
Gogo no Yuigon-jo (A Last Note, 1995)
Bokuto kidan (1992)
Sakura-tai Chiru (1988) (dokumentarni)
Rakuyôju (1986)
Black Board (1986)
Horizont (Chihei-sen, 1984)
Hokusai manga (1981)
Kousatsu (1979)
Slijepi klaun (Chikuzan hitori tabi, 1977)
Aru eiga-kantoku no shogai (Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director, 1975) (dokumentarni)
Waga michi (1974)
Srce (Kokoro, 1973)
Sanka (1972)
Kanawa (1972)
Hadaka no Jukyu-sai (1970)
Shokkaku (1970)
Kagerô (1969)
Tsuyomushi onna to yowamushi otok (1968)
Yabu no naka no kuroneko (1968)
Sei no kigen (1967)
Honnô (1966)
Akuto (1965)
Onibaba (1964)
Haha (1963)
Ningen (1962)
Goli otok (Hadaka no shima, 1960)
Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi (1959)
Daigo Fukuryu-Maru (1959)
Kanashimi wa onna dakeni (1958)
Umi no yarodomo (1957)
Glumica (Joyu, 1956.)
Ryûri no kishi (1956)
Gin shinju (1956)
Okami (1955)
Dobu (1954)
Onna no issho (1953)
Shukuzu (1953)
Djeca Hirošime (Gembaku no ko, 1952)
Nadare (1952)
Priča o voljenoj ženi (Aisai monogatari, 1951)


Related texts

Kaneto Shindō – An Admirable Career in Film

Films by this director

By player

(Sanmon yakusha, 2000)

Directed by: Kaneto Shindô
PHOTOGRAPHY: Yoshiyuke Miyake
Synopsis:

This is a biography of the famous character actor Taiji Tonoyama who started acting in 1950s. He played in more than 250 films and collaborated with Kaneto Shindô. Tonoyami’s first leading role was in Shindô’s film Hadaka no shima (1960). In Taiji’s biography we learn about his relationship with his wife Asako and his young mistress Kimie.

color, 35 mm, 126 min

Devil Woman

(Onibaba, 1966)

Directed by: Kaneto Shindô
PHOTOGRAPHY: Kiyomi Kuroda
Synopsis:

In the 14th century, a man goes to fight in the civil war, while his mother and wife have to stay alone and take care of themselves… This film is a study of the sexual frustrations of lonely women.

b/w, 103 minute

Goli otok

(Hadaka no shima, 1960)

Directed by: Kaneto Shindô
PHOTOGRAPHY: Kiyomi Kuroda
Synopsis:

This film, made almost with no dialogue and amateur actors, bordering on being a documentary film, shows the hard life of a family of four farmers. They live in isolation on an island from which, every day, they have to row to another island to get water for their fields. One day, when the parents are away fetching water, the older son gets sick…

35 mm, b/w, 94 min

Daigo Fukuryu-Maru

(1959.)

Directed by: Kaneto Shindô
PHOTOGRAPHY: Eikichi Uematsu
Synopsis:

In March of 1954, as part of their tests the US Army detonated a hydrogen bomb on the Bikini atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Due to bad calculations, it resulted in a catastrophic rain of radioactive dust that landed on a Japanese fishing boat Daigo Fukuryu-Maru, which was, at the time, 160 kilometers away from the atoll. All the members of the crew got sick and the hero of this film died in September of the same year.

b/w, 115 min
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