Kaneto Shindō — Playwright (109)
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Women of Ginza (1955) IMDb TMDB
銀座の女
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Yukiko Todoroki / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: 銀座の女
At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life. The proprietress, Ikuyo, is a ridiculously good-natured woman who gives money to a poor but brilliant young man, Eisaku Yanoguchi, to attend college on the condition that he will take care of her in the future.
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Wedding Day (1956) IMDb TMDB
嫁ぐ日
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Keiko Tsushima / Masami Taura …
other title: 嫁ぐ日
Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with Shinsaku regaining his old vigor as a writer and Sakie, his daughter, finding a suitable match, while the family is struggling with the losses of war.
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On This Earth (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB
地上
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / Hitomi Nozoe …
other title: 地上
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
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Sakura-tai Chiru (1988) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
さくら隊散る
director: 新藤兼人 actor: 古田将士 / 未来贵子 …
other title: 散落的樱花队 / さくら隊散る …
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.
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The Gambling Samurai (1960) IMDb TMDB
国定忠治
director: Senkichi Taniguchi actor: Toshirō Mifune / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: 国定忠治 / 國定忠治
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's family. A final tragedy leads Kunisada to join with a band of rogues living in the forest in robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, always with an eye toward avenging himself on Magistrate Matsui.
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Love and Duty (1954) IMDb Douban
真実一路
director: 川岛雄三 actor: 山村聪 / 淡岛千景 …
other title: 真实一路 / 真実一路 …
Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth and love.
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A Grain of Wheat (1958) IMDb Douban
一粒の麦
director: 吉村公三郎 actor: 菅原謙二 / 若尾文子 …
other title: Hitotsubu no mugi / 一粒麦 …
The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who watch over them. Co-written by newcomer Shigeki Chiba and Kaneto Shindo, the film was directed by Kozaburo Yoshimura.
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Hyoheki (1958) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
氷壁
director: 增村保造 actor: 菅原謙二 / 山本富士子 …
other title: 冰壁 / 氷壁 …
Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.
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Evil Spirits in the Darkness (1971) WikiData IMDb TMDB
闇の中の魑魅魍魎
director: 中平康 actor: 磨赤儿 / 扇ひろこ …
other title: 闇の中の魑魅魍魎 / Chimimoryo une âme au diable …
The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period, and the hurricane-like inner side of his life.