Kaneto Shindō Movies

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional...

A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young...

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially...

Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .

A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night.

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as...

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

Haru, 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...

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

Film by director Kenji Misumi

The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was...

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...