Kaneto Shindo Remembered @ YBCA

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Kaneto Shindo Remembered
Aug 9--26 • Screening Room
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The exceptional Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo died in May at age 100. In tribute, we present this series of three of his very finest films. Haunted by the devastation of his native Hiroshima, Shindo was a life-long socialist and directed almost 50 films over the span of his career. He left a remarkably diverse body of work, from humanist docu-dramas to expressionistic ghost stories. In the 1940s, he was a screenwriter, and then began working as an assistant director to such major filmmakers as Kon Ichikawa and Seijun Suzuki. He eventually formed his own production company and made politically conscious features, culminating in The Naked Island, his mesmerizing wordless study of Japanese farmers, considered by many to be his masterpiece.

"My mind was always on the commoners, not on the lords, politicians, or anyone of name and fame. I wanted to convey the lives of down-to-earth people who live like weeds." - Kaneto Shindo