FILM DIRECTOR

Kaneto Shindo

1912 - 2012

Photo of Kaneto Shindo

Icon of person Kaneto Shindo

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kaneto Shindo has received more than 253,708 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 26 in 2019). Kaneto Shindo is the 405th most popular film director (down from 397th in 2019), the 620th most popular biography from Japan (down from 590th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Japanese Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Kaneto Shindo ranks 405 out of 2,041. Before him are Tony Gatlif, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, James L. Brooks, Russ Meyer, Claire Denis, and Alberto Lattuada. After him are Christian-Jaque, John Guillermin, André Téchiné, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Kon Ichikawa, and Walter Ruttmann.

Most Popular Film Directors in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Kaneto Shindo ranks 114. Before him are Charles Addams, Kim Sung-gan, Isidro Lángara, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Yaroslav Stetsko, and Barbara W. Tuchman. After him are Aymoré Moreira, Martin Schwarzschild, Nancy Wake, David Packard, Joachim Schepke, and Maria Montez. Among people deceased in 2012, Kaneto Shindo ranks 110. Before him are Gitta Sereny, Charles Durning, Félix Miélli Venerando, Svetozar Gligorić, Bal Thackeray, and Sergio Pininfarina. After him are Edoardo Mangiarotti, Malam Bacai Sanhá, Dorothea Tanning, Wilhelm Brasse, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, and Alexander Arutiunian.

Others Born in 1912

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2012

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kaneto Shindo ranks 620 out of 6,245. Before him are Hōjō Sōun (1432), Daigoro Kondo (1907), Hitoshi Ashida (1887), Shigeru Ban (1957), Hasui Kawase (1883), and Zenkō Suzuki (1911). After him are Mineko Iwasaki (1949), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Senjūrō Hayashi (1876), Yuriko Koike (1952), Keigo Higashino (1958), and Kyōka Izumi (1873).

Others born in Japan

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Kaneto Shindo ranks 19. Before him are Makoto Shinkai (1973), Mamoru Oshii (1951), Satoshi Kon (1963), Mikio Naruse (1905), Kinji Fukasaku (1930), and Ishirō Honda (1911). After him are Kon Ichikawa (1915), Takashi Miike (1960), Yoshiyuki Tomino (1941), Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927), Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), and Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955).

Japanese born Film Directors

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Filmography

Onibaba
Director
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 whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
Nov 21o 19647.659 / 10
Kuroneko
Director
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 returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
Feb 24o 19687.406 / 10
The Naked Island
Director
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
Nov 23o 19608 / 10