Cinematography: Kiyomi Kuroda

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Jitsuko Yoshimura · Kei Sato · Taiji Tonoyama

Plot After enlisting as a volunteer in a war in 14th century Japan, his wife and mother remain living in a swamp. They eke out their living by ambushing worn-out warriors,...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Taiji Tonoyama · Nobuko Otowa · Shinji Tanaka · Masanori Horimoto

Plot Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. Several times a day they row...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Nobuko Otowa · Kiwako Taichi · Kei Sato

Plot A woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Taiji Tonoyama · Nobuko Otowa · Kei Sato · Kei Yamamoto

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Haruko Sugimura · Takeshi Katô · Taiji Tonoyama

Plot Tamiko is a single mother. Her son Toshio is going blind. He is diagnosed with a brain tumour. She does not have the money for surgery and asks her mother...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Daijirô Harada · Nobuko Otowa · Keiko Torii · Kiwako Taichi

Plot Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Ryuzo Hayashi · Nobuko Otowa · Mitsuko Baisho · Dai Kanai

Plot After 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...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Hideo Kanze · Meg Flower · Taiji Tonoyama

Plot Based on the Noh drama with the same name, The Iron Crown is about a woman plotting revenge against her husband who leaves her for a younger woman. Shindo's adaptation...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Hideo Kanze · Nobuko Otowa · Taiji Tonoyama · Eijirô Tono

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Jūzō Itami · Daigo Kusano · Ichiro Sugai

Plot Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Kiwako Taichi · Jiro Daimaru · Daigo Kusano

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Kinshirô Matsumoto · Hiroshi Nawa · Kotobuki Hananomoto · Rintarô Fujima

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Go Kato · Komaki Kurihara · Yasushi Nagata · Kinzo Shin

Plot A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and the inhospitable snowscapes of the north.

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Eiko Yamagishi · Taiji Tonoyama · Hideo Kanze

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Taiji Tonoyama · Kayo Matsuo · Hideo Kanze

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Tokuko Watanabe · Jiro Kawarazaki · Nobuko Otowa · Tetsuji Takechi

Plot The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel beatings. After an unknown intruder probably...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Taiji Tonoyama · Rokko Toura · Dai Kanai

Plot Kaneto Shindô's 1974 film "My Way" is a throwback to films of his early career and is an exposure of the Japanese government's mistreatment of the country's migratory workers. Based...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Shiho Fujimura · Andrew Hughes

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Noboru Matsuhashi · Kazunaga Tsuji · Anri · Nobuko Otowa

Plot Kokoro is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder scholar whom he calls "Sensei". Haunted by tragic secrets...