Kaneto Shindō

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old ...

A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen ...

The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.

Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After ...

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling ...

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai ...

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring ...

Ginko, a poor cobbler’s daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love ...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband’s dead body, fighting government ...