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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kaneto Shindo has received more than 264,561 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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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).

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