Kaneto Shindo

Kaneto Shindo was born on 22 April 1912 in Hiroshima Prefecture, into a family of landowners ruined by his father's bankruptcy. Having joined Shinkō Kinema in 1934, he moved to set design and then to screenwriting, and was the assistant of a great director of period films. Mobilised into the navy, he was one of six survivors of a unit of a hundred men. In 1950 he founded an independent production company, made nearly fifty films, the last in 2010, and died on 29 May 2012.

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• CinemaChildren of Hiroshima原爆の子Kaneto Shindo · 1952Cinema