Kaneto Shindo
About
Biography
Filmography
Director (Feature Film)
Writer (Feature Film)
Producer (Feature Film)
Art Director (Feature Film)
Misc. Crew (Feature Film)
Life Events
1934
Began film career as assistant art director
1934
Joined the now-extinct Shinko Kinema studio as an apprentice film developer
1943
Drafted into the Japanese Imperial Navy; became one of six in his 100-man unit to survive the war
1950
Formed own independent production company Kindai Eiga Kyokai
1951
Directorial debut, "The Story of a Beloved Wife"
1961
Won the Grand Prix at the Moscow international film festival with dialogue-free drama "The Naked Island" (1960)
1964
Won critical acclaim for erotically charged period piece "Onibaba"
1972
Headed the Japan Writers' Guild
1972
Wrote first film in trilogy about a half-Japanese, half-American woman "Rika the Mixed-Blood Girl"
1987
Wrote Seijiro Koyama's "Hachi-ko"; film later remade into "Hachi: A Dog's Tale" (2009), starring Richard Gere
2006
Appeared in the documentary "What's a Director?"
2010
Helmed final film, the WWII drama "Postcard" based on his experience with the Imperial Navy
