Shindo Kaneto
Shindō Kaneto ( Japanese 新 藤 兼 人 , actually: 新 藤 兼 登 with the same pronunciation; born April 22, 1912 in Ishiuchi, Saeki district (today: Saeki-ku district , Hiroshima ); † May 29, 2012 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese Film director and screenwriter . Since the 1940s, he has written the scripts for more than 210 films and directed over 40 films himself.
Life
Shindo's parents, who were large landowners, lost their land and assets due to the Great Depression. He was therefore forced to earn his own living at the age of 15. Shindō began his career in 1928 as a production designer at Shinkō Tōkyō . In 1939 he wrote his first screenplays, including for Kinoshita Keisuke , Yoshimura Kōzaburō and Mizoguchi Kenji . The latter had a great influence on his later work as a director. In 1942 he moved to the Shōchiku production company . From 1944 until the end of the war, Shindo was a soldier. Together with the director Yamada Tengo , the producer Itoya Hisao and the actor Tonoyama Taiji , he founded the independent production company Kindai Eiga Kyokai (Society of Modern Films) in 1950 in order to escape the commercial pressure at Shōchiku and to have the opportunity to process his own topics .
In 1951 he made his directorial debut with the film Aisai monogatari . The film is about his wife, who died in 1943. His first success as a director came in 1952 with The Children of Hiroshima , which was one of the first feature films to be devoted to the consequences of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima . He was to take up this topic several times later. For example, the film was screened at the Cannes International Film Festival and received a Peace Prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival .
Shindo made his most famous films in the 1960s. These include the drama Die Nackte Insel (1960), which won the Grand Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival , and the horror films Onibaba - Die Töterinnen (1964) and Yabu no naka no kuroneko (1968). These films often featured strong female characters. He often worked with the composer Hikaru Hayashi , who also wrote the music for the films in question.
In 1975 he brought out a documentary about Mizoguchi Kenji, which was also intended as a homage. Aru eiga kantoku no shōgai - Mizoguchi Kenji no kiroku ( あ る 映 画 監督 の 生涯 溝口 健 二 の 記録 ), the title of the film, consists of interviews with people close to Mizoguchi. In the same year he was awarded the Asahi Prize for his contribution to independent film . In 1978 he married the actress Nobuko Otowa , who starred in many of his films.
He was nominated several times for the Japanese Academy Award and won it in 1978 for his screenplay for Yoshitarō Nomuras Jiken and in 1996 three times for his film A Last Letter . In 1999 his film Ikitai won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival. In 2003 he received the Japanese Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 1997 he was named a Person of Special Cultural Merit , in 2002 he was awarded the Order of Culture and in 2011 the Kikuchi Kan Prize .
In 2010, at the age of 98, he made the feature film Ichimai no hagaki (English Postcard ), ending his career as a director, which won Best Film at the Mainichi Eiga Concours in 2011 and in other categories for which he received the Blue Ribbon Award in 2012 as Best Director. In Postcard Kaneto dealt with the fate of the families of fallen soldiers in World War II. Only Manoel de Oliveira made films at an even older age. Postcard was also submitted as a Japanese entry for the 2012 Oscar in the “Best Foreign Language Film” category, but did not make it onto the nomination list.
Filmography
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Web links
- Shindō Kaneto in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography at Filmreference.com (English)
- Director Kaneto Shindo is dead , Spiegel Online , May 30, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d 新 藤 兼 人 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved April 6, 2015 (Japanese).
- ↑ 新 藤 兼 人 . In: 知 恵 蔵 2015 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved April 6, 2015 (Japanese).
- ↑ Japan film director Shindo dead at 100 ( Memento from June 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Announcement on asiaone.com dated May 30, 2012 (accessed May 30, 2012).
- ↑ Filmography at jmdb.ne.jp (Japanese)
- ↑ Keiko Yamame: The Japanese Cinema. History. Movies. Directors. Bucher, Munich and Lucerne, 1985, p. 212.
- ↑ Article in the Los Angeles Times: Kaneto Shindo tells a personal story in 'Postcard'
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Shindo, Kaneto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 新 藤 兼 人 (Japanese, pseudonym); 新 藤 兼 登 (Japanese, real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ishiuchi, Saeki County (now Saeki Municipality, Hiroshima), Japan |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 2012 |
| Place of death | Tokyo |