Kaneto Shindō Movies

Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and child.

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata...

Film by director Kenji Misumi

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 junior high school teacher is raped by several students inside the school.

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenament called the Ryuheiso.

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

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

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...

The film portrays the experiences of Takashi Nagai as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

Japanese drama film.

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...

1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura

A conflict between parents and their delinquent daughter.

Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises...

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying...

Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo during the Edo period. His exploits have been...

An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women,...