Born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1912 and dying in 2012 at the age of one hundred, Kaneto Shindo began as an art department assistant and screenwriter, working under Kenji Mizoguchi, and wrote 238 scripts. In 1950 he co-founded the independent company Kindai Eiga Kyokai and directed his first film, Story of a Beloved Wife, in 1951. He made 48 films, many starring his wife Nobuko Otowa. Children of Hiroshima (1952) was the first Japanese film to address the atomic bomb, The Naked Island (1960) has no dialogue, and Onibaba (1964) and Kuroneko (1968) are supernatural tales of women. His last film, Postcard, was made in 2010.
Filmography
- Children of Hiroshima (1952)
- Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)
- The Naked Island (1960)
- Onibaba (1964)
- Kuroneko (1968)
- A Last Note (1995)
- Postcard (2010)