Kaneto Shindō Movies

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of...

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his...

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

In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors...

Released on the same date as Shochiku's version.

A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been...

Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually,...

Film by director Kenji Misumi

Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.

Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns...

A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha...

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student...

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover...