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- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaJûkichi UnoIchirô SugaiShindo's directorial debut is the fictionalized account of the death of his first wife. Following the breakout of the Pacific War, the Japanese film industry was forcibly downsized. Numazaki, a mediocre screenwriter, faces imminent dismissal. His wife Takako encourages him to seek work in Kyoto. Numazaki fails his aptitude test, which is to write a script for the famous but demanding director Sakaguchi (a veiled reference for Kenji Mizoguchi). Takako offers to support his husband for a year, so that he can hone his craft from scratch.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsSusumu FujitaNobuko OtowaMitsuko Mito
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaOsamu TakizawaMasao ShimizuPost war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaSumiko HidakaIsuzu YamadaShusei Tokuda's starkly realistic novel about a poor girl pressed into becoming a geisha was forcefully adapted by Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba). When Ginko (Nobuko Otowa, Shindo's wife) falls in love with one of her clients, she is handily rebuffed by the young man's wealthy family, and left to wander from geisha house to geisha house.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaKoreya SendaJûkichi Uno
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsRanko AkagiKamatari FujiwaraBokuzen HidariPostwar Tokyo. Pin (Jukichi Uno) and Toku (Taiji Tonoyama) live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaSanae TakasugiTaiji TonoyamaTime; a few years after the surrender of Japan in the Second World War. The country is in ruins, economy devastated, and the vulnerable masses deprived of work; let alone the basic amenities of life. A new order, led by voratius opportunists is in the make where the weak are easy prey to the hydraheaded mountebanks. Betrayed and exploited by their employer, a group of five trainee insurance brokers face the challenge of commuting suicide, or taking the path of felony. They choose the latter and decide to rub a money truck to ease the suffering and pain of their family members.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaHiroyuki NagatoJûkichi Uno
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsMie KitaharaNobuko OtowaRentarô Mikuni
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsYûjirô IshiharaShôji YasuiIkuko Kimuro
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsKinuyo TanakaMachiko KyôJûkichi Uno
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsJûkichi UnoNobuko OtowaHarold ConwayThe story of a Japanese fishing boat whose crew were accidental victims of fallout from the Bikini hydrogen bomb tests.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsFurankî SakaiIzumi YukimuraNobuko Otowa
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaTaiji TonoyamaShinji TanakaA family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsTaiji TonoyamaNobuko OtowaKei SatôThe ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaHaruko SugimuraHomizu ArataniTamiko is a divorced mother with a seriously ill son, struggling to save him and give both a sense of their existence. She lives with her mother and brother, but will marry a man older than her. The dramatic shadow of Hiroshima bombs is always hovering over the fate of the characters.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaJitsuko YoshimuraKei SatôTwo women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaKyôko KishidaEitarô OzawaA morally-suspect and self-serving retainer rashly baits her high-ranking employer, a regional governor, with a salacious story of a former acquaintance and catastrophe ensues.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsHideo KanzeNobuko OtowaEimei Esumi
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaTaiji TonoyamaKayo Matsuo
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsKichiemon NakamuraNobuko OtowaKei SatôTwo women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaJûzô ItamiDaigo KusanoOtowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaKiwako TaichiJiro DaimaruA film that explores sexual instincts, centering on the psychological conflicts between a mother and son, and between a son and his lover.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsDaijirô HaradaNobuko OtowaKeiko ToriiAfter leaving high school, Michio Yamada (Norio Nagayama in the real life incidents) becomes involved in the shudan shushoku, a post-war Japanese government work program which involves taking almost an entire high school graduating class from the countryside to Tokyo to work for a fruit company. Some terrible things happened to his family in the past and that explains why Michio came later to have perpetrated so many killings.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaHideo KanzeMeg FlowerWhen her husband leaves her for a younger woman, a woman plots revenge against him.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaTokuko WatanabeJiro KawarazakiThe story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind Shamisen teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel beatings.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaAnriNoboru MatsuhashiThe relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to live both at a guest house. Both will be attracted towards Iko, the beautiful daughter of their landlady.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaTaiji TonoyamaRokkô TouraBased on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsRyûzô HayashiNobuko OtowaMitsuko BaishôAfter over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s the rough-hewn blind shamisien player and folk-song collector named Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This biographical drama chronicles his wanderings and his life, with a particular focus on his humble beginnings as a peasant on a remote and arid island.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsKô NishimuraNobuko OtowaTsutomu KaribaThe men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsKen OgataToshiyuki NishidaYûko TanakaThe famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsTerutake TsujiNobuko OtowaKazuki MinabuchiBlack Board tells the story of middle school bullying taken to the point of homicide.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsKeiju KobayashiNobuko OtowaIchirô ZaitsuHaru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsMasahiko TsugawaYuki SumidaKazuyo AsariThe film tells the 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 named Oyuki. Meticulous and smartly dressed, Nagai patiently wrote in his diary his thoughts during many years. A melancholy reflection on the passage of time and a brilliant interpretive exercise.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsHaruko SugimuraNobuko OtowaHideo KanzeYoko is a famous actress who goes to a mountain chalet for a few days rest. There, she learns a secret from her companion Toyoko.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsRentarô MikuniShinobu ÔtakeAkira EmotoIt is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNaoto TakenakaKeiko OginomeHideko YoshidaFilm inspired by the life of Japanese actor Taiji Tonoyama, with whom Kaneto Shindo had worked on many occasions, with the help of archive images and fragments of the most famous films of the director. The actress Nobuko Otowa adds dialogues facing the camera, as if she was talking to Tonoyama and remembering together old episodes of the interpreter, a past marked by alcoholism and a hectic sex life.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsAkira EmotoDaijirô HaradaMansaku IkeuchiA mother and daughter living alone in a small village in deep Japan manage to get out of poverty seducing men, who offer their sexual services and then poisoned with a drink similar to sake.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsAkira EmotoEtsushi ToyokawaNaomasa MusakaSet at the end of the Taisho era (1920s) at Ishiuchi Jinjo Higher Elementary School in the mountains of Hiroshima prefecture, there was a fervent teacher called Mr. Ichikawa. He always placed his pupils first and took any issues to heart.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsEtsushi ToyokawaShinobu ÔtakeNaomasa MusakaToward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade's wife Yuko and bears witness to the tragic life she has led. This year's Oscar entry from Japan finds SHINDO in top form and his 49th and reportedly last film as fresh and poignant as ever.