FILM DIRECTOR

Kaneto Shindo

1912 - 2012

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Kaneto Shindō (新藤 兼人, Shindō Kaneto; 22 April 1912 – 29 May 2012) was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note. His screenplays were filmed by directors such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Seijun Suzuki, and Tadashi Imai. His films of the first decade were often in a social realist vein, repeatedly depicting the fate of women, while since the seventies, portraits of artists became a speciality. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kaneto Shindo is the 600th most popular film director (down from 405th in 2019), the 930th most popular biography from Japan (down from 620th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Japanese Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Kaneto Shindo ranks 600 out of 2,041. Before him are Yorgos Lanthimos, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Gérard Krawczyk, Ildikó Enyedi, Aleksandr Ptushko, and Robert Mulligan. After him are Burt Kennedy, Robert Surtees, Les Kurbas, Yuri Norstein, Genndy Tartakovsky, and John Badham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Kaneto Shindo ranks 167. Before him are Kurt Sanderling, Günter Wand, Svetozar Vukmanović, Wilfrid Sellars, Rudolf Vytlačil, and Võ Chí Công. After him are Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Bill Roberts, Alfred Schwarzmann, Barbara Hutton, and Béla Király. Among people deceased in 2012, Kaneto Shindo ranks 178. Before him are Lisa Della Casa, Russell Means, Blagoje Adžić, Vitaly Vorotnikov, Moshe Sanbar, and Dom Mintoff. After him are Ruggiero Ricci, José María Zárraga, Vicar, Elliott Carter, George Kerr, and Gevork Vartanian.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kaneto Shindo ranks 930 out of 6,245. Before him are Jirō Minami (1874), Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948), Katsuyuki Kawachi (1955), Ken Shimura (1950), Inō Tadataka (1745), and Nobuo Uematsu (1959). After him are Takehiko Inoue (1967), Osachi Hamaguchi (1870), Yamamoto Kansuke (1493), Tawaraya Sōtatsu (1570), Fumiko Enchi (1905), and Ichiro Suzuki (1973).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Kaneto Shindo ranks 28. Before him are Takashi Miike (1960), Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927), Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Gorō Miyazaki (1967), Osamu Dezaki (1943), and Seijun Suzuki (1923). After him are Yoshiaki Kawajiri (1950), Keisuke Kinoshita (1912), Yoji Yamada (1931), Jun'ichi Kōuchi (1886), Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910), and Rintaro (1941).

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