Kaneto Shindo

Kaneto Shindo (新藤兼人) was born on April 22, 1912. Kaneto Shindo movies and tv shows: Postcard 2010 (Japan), Teacher and Three Children 2008 (Japan), The Perfect Education 1999 (Japan), Kuroneko 1968 (Japan), Onibaba 1964 (Japan)...

Kaneto Shindo was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and author. He directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238.
Shindo was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, and he made several films about Hiroshima and the atomic bomb. Like his early mentor Kenji Mizoguchi, many of his films feature strong female characters. He was a pioneer of independent film production in Japan, founding a company called Kindai Eiga Kyokai. He continued working as a scriptwriter, director and author until his death at the age of 100.