Kaneto Shindo, who died this week at the grand age of 100, made almost 50 films over the course of his career (and scripted over a hundred). Best known in the West for his gorgeously stylized horror films Onibaba (1964) and Black Cat (1968), Shindo had continued to work until 2010 when he released his final film, Postcard, which made him the 2nd oldest working director in the world after Manoel de Oliveira.
Born in Hiroshima, Shindo’s work was haunted by the atomic bombing of his city as well as by his own wartime experience in which he was one of only six of his 100-man naval unit to survive. One of his very earliest films, the 1952 Children of Hiroshima (seen above in an East German handbill designed by Siegfried Ebert) was the first Japanese film to address the devastation of Hiroshima and its after-effects. (It received a Us release only last year.)
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Born in Hiroshima, Shindo’s work was haunted by the atomic bombing of his city as well as by his own wartime experience in which he was one of only six of his 100-man naval unit to survive. One of his very earliest films, the 1952 Children of Hiroshima (seen above in an East German handbill designed by Siegfried Ebert) was the first Japanese film to address the devastation of Hiroshima and its after-effects. (It received a Us release only last year.)
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