Kaneto Shindō Movies

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

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...

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

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.

One night, Genjiro Tsurumi, a former ronin comes across a man being attacked by a group of assassins. The dying man is an official secret agent...

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

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

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

Third film of the yoidore hakase series

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for...

1962 Japanese movie

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

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

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.

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

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...