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Yasuzo Masumura amazes us with yet another sensual stunner. This period way-of-all-flesh tale is almost a horror film, but the supernatural shivers are far outpaced by the daily Evil that Men Do. Japanese superstar Ayako Wakao blazes across the screen as a self-decreed avenger of the female sex, who allows men to destroy themselves and uses them to destroy each other. The bloody killings orbit around the desire to possess the irresistible Spider Woman, an in an ‘annihilating noir.’ The screenplay is by the equally famous Kaneto Shindo, from a Japanese ‘amor fou’ novel by Junichiro Tanizaki.

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1966 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 86 min. / Street Date June 22, 2021 / Spider Tattoo / Available from Amazon / 39.95

Starring: Ayako Wakao, Akio Hasegawa, Gaku Yamamoto, Kei Sato, Fujio Suga, Reiko Fujiwara, Asao Uchida, Kikue Mori.

Cinematography: Kazuo Miyagawa

Production Designers: Hiroaki Fujii, Shiro Kaga

Art Director: Yoshinobu Nishioka

Film Editor: Kanji Suganuma

Original Music: Hikaru...

Director Kazuo Ikehiro, now on his third and final Zatoichi film, and lead star Shintaro Katsu attempted something different with this, the fourteen entry in the Zatoichi series. They roped in superstar director/screenwriter Kaneto Shindo, who had by then already made the hit productions “The Naked Island” and “Onibaba” and would go on to make “Kuroneko” two years later, to write the script for Ichi’s new adventure, in an attempt to bring some freshness to the series.

The reluctance to kill that Zatoichi showed in the previous films, and particularly in “Zatoichi’s Vengeance”, the one that immediately preceded this, has turned into full-blown repentance as he decides to take a pilgrimage to the 88 Temples in Shokiku. Before he embarks on the pilgrimage, he asks but one thing of God: to not make him have to kill again, necessarily or unnecessarily. God, as it turns out,...

Kaneto Shindo was a prolific director and screenwriter who created some of the most memorable films of the black and white era, such as “Onibaba” (1964) and “Kuroneko” (1968). In “The Naked Island” (1960) Shindo gives us a window on a small farming family living on an island, showing the harsh conditions under which they survive.

The film begins with a man and woman collecting water that they transport back to the island on a small vessel. We see that they have two sons living with them. It is clear from the beginning that theirs is a difficult life. The dry earth means that they are required to continually water their crops, travelling back and forth from the island and hauling their buckets up the steep hill. The eldest son is taken by his mother to school on the mainland. While much of their time is taken up with an endless struggle against the elements,...

Benicio Del Toro has been named president of the jury for Un Certain Regard in Cannes.

Hailing him as “not only a film lover but a brilliant actor,” the Cannes Film Festival said Wednesday that Del Toro was “an artist who knows no boundaries” and a performer who “throws himself like no other into his roles.” He won a supporting actor Oscar in 2001 for his performance in Steven Soderbergh’s “Traffic.”

Del Toro succeeds Uma Thurman in presiding over the jury for Un Certain Regard, the sidebar at Cannes that focuses on films with unusual themes or storytelling techniques. About 20 works compete in the section.

Del Toro has had a long association with Cannes. He served on the main competition jury eight years ago, which awarded the Palme d’Or to Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.” In 2008, Del Toro won the best...

A few months ago, the Crypt of Curiosities briefly touched on a subgenre of Japanese cinema called Kaidan. For the unaware, modern Kaidan are ghost stories, usually set in the Edo period and drawing on classic mythology and folklore. It was a very popular genre for ’50s and ’60s Japanese cinema to draw on, with standouts like Ugetsu (1953), Black Cat Mansion (1958), and Kwaidan (1964) helping define the movement as one of the great types of J-Horror. But when it comes to the ultimate in Kaidan, one director’s body of work stands out among the rest: the Kaidan of Kaneto Shindo.

Kaneto Shindo was a legend. Over the course of the hundred years he was with us, he worked as a screenwriter on everything from war films to disaster movies to Zatoichi entries, and served as the director for avant-garde classics like The Naked Island (1960). His filmography spans all sorts of genres and movements,...

Japanese art filmmaking writ large by director Hiroshi Teshigahara: a strange allegorical fantasy about a man imprisoned in a sand pit, and compelled to make a primitive living with the woman who lives there. Perhaps it's about marriage... Woman in the Dunes Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 394 1964 / B&W / 1:33 full frame / 148 min. / Suna no onna / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date August 23, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida, Hiroko Ito Production Design Totetsu Hirakawa, Masao Yamazaki Produced by Tadashi Oono, Iichi Ichikawa Cinematography Hiroshi Segawa Film Editor Fuzako Shuzui Original Music Toru Takemitsu Written by Kobo Abe Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

In the 1960s the public interest in art cinema reached out beyond France and Italy, finally giving an opening for more exotic fare from Japan. Director Hiroshi Teshigahara earned his moment in the spotlight with 1964's Woman in the Dunes, an adaptation of a book by Kobo Abe.

In this episode of CriterionCast Chronicles, Ryan is joined by David Blakeslee, Arik Devens, and Mark Hurne to discuss the Criterion Collection releases for May 2016.

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Acclaimed at Cannes, Korean horror thriller The Wailing is heading westward. Here's a very chilling new trailer...

A normally quiet, ordinary South Korean village falls victim of a strange disease in The Wailing, written and directed by Na Hong-jin. People appear to be possessed. There are dead bodies. The corpses of crows secreted in jars. Weeping pustules. What can it all mean? We've no idea, but we're looking forward to finding out.

The Wailing caused a minor sensation at Cannes, and having read a few reviews of it, we're thoroughly intrigued by what sounds like a true genre mash-up: Salon describes it as a combination of Scandinavian thriller, zombie apocalypse and pitch black comedy. Director Na Hong-jin has form in genre filmmaking - his 2011 thriller The Yellow Sea was very good - but this is clearly a step into weirder, perhaps even Lynchian territory. 

The new trailer below,...

Simpsons jokes and expectations of foreign film exoticism notwithstanding, Shindo Kaneto's 1960 film The Naked Island has arrived on Blu-ray by way of the Criterion Collection (spine #811). Shindo's follow-up to that film, Onibaba, remains one of my favourite movies from the Criterion label, so I was eager to check out this title - which parallels, and also departs from, his other work in unique ways. The Naked Island concerns a small Japanese farming family whose tract of land is the meagre island of the title. A bald patch stuck rudely in the middle of a bay, the island has no fresh water source, so the mother and father spend their days rowing to the mainland, bringing back buckets of water, and irrigating their crop....

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In this episode of Off The Shelf, Ryan and Brian take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for Tuesday, May 17th 2016.

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The Witch (Robert Eggers)

“We will conquer this wilderness. It will not consume us,” foreshadows our patriarch in the first act of The Witch, a delightfully insane bit of 17th century devilish fun. As if Ingmar Bergman and Ken Russell co-directed Kill List, Robert Eggers’ directorial debut follows a God-fearing Puritan family banished from their settlement in a colonial New England, only to have their deep sense of faith uprooted when our title character has her way with their fate.

Don't let your boss see this movie, it'll give them ideas. Writer-director Kaneto Shindo reduces the human drama to its basics, as an isolated family endures a backbreaking existence of dawn 'til dusk toil to eke out a living. It's a beautiful but humbling ode to adaptability and human resolve. And the show has no conventional dialogue. The Naked Island Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 811 1960 / B&W / 2:35 widescreen / 94 min. / Hadaka no shima / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date May 17, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka, Masanori Horimoto. Cinematography Kiyomi Kuroda Film Editor Toshio Enoki Original Music Hikaru Hayashi Produced by Eisaku Matsuura, Kaneto Shindo Written and Directed by Kaneto Shindo

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Writer-director Kaneto Shindo started his own production company in the 1950s earning critical attention but not great success with pictures on topical themes -- the legacy of Hiroshima, the story of the fishing trawler irradiated by a hydrogen blast.

Hey, let me start off here by welcoming my friends who followed me on my Criterion Reflections blog and are sticking around to carry on my chronological exploration of the Criterion Collection. Reading my stuff here on Criterion Cast is probably not that big of a jump for most of you, since I’ve been writing for this site since 2010, but this post does mark a significant transition for me. I appreciate the positive comments that have been sent my way in various formats since I came to the end of that particular rope a couple weeks ago. But enough about that then! I’m eager to share my thoughts on Kuroneko, a beautifully creepy and hauntingly mesmerizing film from 1968 directed by Kaneto Shindo.

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Impressive, atmospheric Japanese ghost story that employs stark minimalist set design, poised performances in the Noh tradition and brisk,...

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With the exception of several crowd-pleasing samurai epics (like Zatoichi and Three Outlaw Samurai) and a few bargain-priced historical costume dramas (such as The Ballad of Narayama and Gate of Hell), the flow of newly released Japanese art films by the Criterion Collection has slowed to a trickle over the past five years or so. (And for the sake of politeness and avoiding pointless controversy, I won’t invoke Jellyfish Eyes in this argument either.) We’ve obviously enjoyed a steady stream of chanbara, Ozu and especially Kurosawa Blu-ray upgrades during this past half-decade, and there have been several outstanding Japanese sets recently issued as part of the Eclipse Series as well, but we really haven’t seen much else along these lines in the main lineup since Kaneto Shindo’s Kuroneko came out in the fall of 2011. That’s over 200 spine numbers ago! But I’m happy to report...

Our annual New Years present from the Criterion Collection has come one day early this year!

As usual, the Criterion Collection New Years Drawing from Jason Polan teases at a number of upcoming releases (announced, rumored, and unknown). I’ll do my best to gather the best guesses in this article, so feel free to comment below.

Here are links to the various drawings from the past few years

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A. Three Kings (IMDb) / Wim Wenders’s Kings of the Road (IMDb)

B. The Kid (IMDb / Criterion) / McCabe & Mrs. Miller (IMDb)

C. Fantastic Planet (IMDb)

D. Lone Wolf and Cub films

E. Valley of the Dolls (IMDb) / Bubble (IMDb)

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F. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb...

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Two classic films from Onibaba director Kaneto Shindo arrive on Blu-ray. Dan takes a look at The Naked Island and Kuroneko...

Without question, Kaneto Shindo’s best-known film is his chilling 1964 masterpiece Onibaba. Frequently listed as one of the greatest horror films ever made, this tale of a murderous wife and daughter in feudal Japan has long been available in the UK on VHS, DVD and now Blu-ray, and stands as a landmark of Japanese cinema. But what of Shindo’s other films? The director’s death last year - at the grand age of 100 - has led to resurgence in interest in his work, and this week Masters Of Cinema release two of his other classics in gorgeous new Blu-ray editions.

The Naked Island (1961)

The Naked Island was the prolific Shindo’s 15th film, but for a while it looked like it might his last.

★★★★☆ Kaneto Shindô's Naked Island (Hadaka no shima, 1960) receives the Blu-ray treatment this week thanks to the UK's foremost purveyors of highly acclaimed filmic artefacts - Eureka's Masters of Cinema label. Presenting the intolerably difficult life of a peninsula-dwelling family, Naked Island is a cinematic ode to life separated from civilisation and a masterfully crafted portrait of devotion. Each day, the family travel via boat across the precarious sea to a neighbouring island, gathering fresh water to irrigate their barren fields and pouring it by hand over each of the plants fighting against the odds in this desolate terrain.

Shindô perfectly captures the monotony of this daily chore, crafting a seemingly endless cycle of repetitiveness and the futility of life on the edges of humanity. This incessant sequence of tiresome survival is only broken twice, once for a day trip to a neighbouring town where the advancements of technology are met with fear and trepidation,...

Japanese director Shindo Kaneto, who passed away last year aged 100, is probably best known for his fantastic horror films, Onibaba and Kuroneko, both of which are already in Eureka Entertainment's Masters of Cinema series. On 17 June they will be joined by Shindo's earlier film, The Naked Island, in a newly restored Blu-ray release, packed with special features, including a feature-length commentary from the director and composer Hayashi Hikaru and an introduction from director and cineaste Alex Cox.The Naked Island was a noted change of pace for Shindo, shot for a fraction of his normal budget with a skeleton crew on the remote Setonaikai archipelago. Eureka's release marks the first time that the film has been released on Blu-ray in the UK, and have released the following clip to...

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Eureka Entertainment's always-excellent Masters of Cinema series has just announced its new titles for June and July, which includes five fantastc new releases. There will be Blu-ray upgrades of Shindo Kaneto's The Naked Island and Kureneko, which will be released in June together with a re-issue on both Blu-ray and DVD of F.W. Murnau's excellent Tabu: A Story of the South Seas. In July, D.W. Griffith's ground-breaking The Birth of a Nation will be released on Blu-ray in the UK for the very first time, alongside Jacques Rivette's little-seen Le Pont du Nord.We will be sure to share more information about these releases as the information becomes available, but for the time being you can check out the gorgeous new artwork in the gallery below.From...

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The writer and director died last month aged 100. As a BFI retrospective celebrates his career, Emilie Bickerton salutes a life's work made in the shadow of Hiroshima

Kaneto Shindo, who died last month aged 100, just before the start of a two month British Film Institute season dedicated to his career and that of long-term collaborator Yoshimura Kozaburo, spent a lot of time among the reeds, wading through mud, puddles and into woods of bamboo. He was most comfortable there, where life was reduced to its bare essentials. Shindo was born in 1912 in Hiroshima. Japan modernised dramatically over his lifetime, but he observed it at a distance, with the knowledge that all this could disappear drummed into him from childhood after what had happened to his hometown. His subjects in the 49 films he made, ranging from melodramas to horror stories to erotic fictions, were those society had rejected or brutalised, who were now struggling to survive,...

Few filmmakers outside of Hollywood have influenced cinema more than Kaneto Shindo. After becoming the first post-war Japanese director to win international acclaim with his 1953 Cannes Film Festival debut, Children of Hiroshima, Shindo went on to international fame and financial success in 1960 with production of The Naked Island. Both films confront the human response to tragedy, yet his 1964 film, Onibaba (Devil Woman) and 1968 follow-up, Kuroneko (The Black Cat) demonstrate that his most lasting legacy was laying the foundational themes for modern Japanese Horror and contributing two timeless gems to the genre as a whole.

Kaneto Shindo, who died this week at the grand age of 100, made almost 50 films over the course of his career (and scripted over a hundred). Best known in the West for his gorgeously stylized horror films Onibaba (1964) and Black Cat (1968), Shindo had continued to work until 2010 when he released his final film, Postcard, which made him the 2nd oldest working director in the world after Manoel de Oliveira.

Born in Hiroshima, Shindo’s work was haunted by the atomic bombing of his city as well as by his own wartime experience in which he was one of only six of his 100-man naval unit to survive. One of his very earliest films, the 1952 Children of Hiroshima (seen above in an East German handbill designed by Siegfried Ebert) was the first Japanese film to address the devastation of Hiroshima and its after-effects. (It received a Us release only last year.)

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Japanese film director whose work was heavily influenced by the Hiroshima atomic bomb

The fact that the film director Kaneto Shindo, who has died aged 100, was born in Hiroshima affected his work both directly and indirectly. His films, such as Children of Hiroshima (1952), are valuable contributions to the cinema of hibakusha, the testimony of the survivors of the atomic bomb. Many of his movies are allegories on the absence of civilised behaviour in the conduct of war, exposing humankind's innate propensity towards violence and cruelty in the absence of a moral and spiritual code.

Much of his humanism and style derived from the director Kenji Mizoguchi, for whom Shindo wrote two screenplays. In 1975 Shindo paid homage to his mentor in a documentary, Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director. Like Mizoguchi, Shindo created many forceful women characters who, by virtue of their willpower and love, tend to "save" their male counterparts.

Director Kaneto Shindo died of natural causes on Tuesday at 9:24am. He was 100 years old.

Shindo was born in Hiroshima on April 22, 1912. He got his start in the world of film in 1934 when he joined the art department of Shinko Kinema and later studied under director Kenji Mizoguchi.

After a stint with the Imperial Japanese Navy during the war, he moved to Shochiku and collaborated with director Kozaburo Yoshimura for several years. In 1950, both men left Shochiku to start their own film company, Kindai Eiga Kyokai.

Shindo made his directorial debut in 1951 with Story of a Beloved Wife. After that, he continued working as a screenwriter and director, going on to win numerous awards both at home and abroad for films such as The Naked Island, Onibaba, The Life of Chikuzan, and Children of Hiroshima.

Back in 2010, Shindo announced that his film Postcard would be the last of his career.

Some cities are lucky enough to have an independent rep house. However, it takes something special to make diehard New Yorker Ted Hope declare "I Want To Live In La Today And Go To The Greatest Celebration Of Cinema Ever!!!" That was the message on the producer's blog, Facebook and Twitter feeds Saturday in honor of Cinefamily's Fantastic, Elastic 24-Hour Holiday Telethon, a day-long affair designed to raise funds for the nonprofit film group’s operational budget. The event began at noon today with Spike Jonze hosting a personal retrospective of his career. Later in the evening, Benicio del Toro will introduce Kaneto Shindo’s 1960 film “The Naked Island.” Sunday morning, a 90-minute chat with Elliott Gould will close the marathon. Between these notable actors and directors, founder and head programmer Hadrian Belove and his Cinefamily team have also assembled some distinguished musical, comedic and journalistic talent for a...

Col Needham, our founder and CEO, held a class on the inception and future of IMDb, to a packed room of students and cinephiles. Col explained the origins of the site chronicling right up to the present day, our exciting entry into the app and smart phone world, and what IMDb thinks about for the future.

Lumière has made a very strategic decision to have notable individuals introduce the films, sometimes it’s the filmmaker themself, as Jerry Schatzberg (Scarecrow, Panic in Needle Park) presented his rediscovered work, Puzzle of a Downfall Child on Tuesday night.

Benicio Del Toro has been extremely involved and supportive of the festival. He introduced one of the most lauded films screened so far, The Naked Island, a Japanese film from director Kineto Shindo.

Bertrand Tavernier discussed silent films with historian/preservationist Kevin Brownlow at the Lumiere Institute, reeling off funny and insightful anecdotes...

There are Tons of new releases this past week, and as my co-host and friend Travis George said, it was going to be a hell of a time to write these up for all of you people out there who want to know about Criterion’s blossoming Hulu Plus page. And as usual, I’m elated to tell you all about these films, especially if you want to join up to the service, which helps us keep this weekly article series going. I mean, come on, there’s an Ingmar Bergman film that’s not in the collection yet! More on that at the end of the article. So let’s get right to it then.

The epic film The Human Condition (1959) has been put up, separated into three videos. Parts 1 & 2, Parts 3 & 4 and Parts 5 & 6 are there for your ease of watching, so if you have 574 minutes to kill watching the...

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"A movie that has waited nearly 60 years for a Us theatrical premiere and could hardly be more timely, Kaneto Shindo's Children of Hiroshima is a somber melodrama about the aftereffects of atomic radiation, shot on location in the half-rebuilt site of the world's first nuclear catastrophe." J Hoberman in the Voice: "Showing for a week at Bam in advance of an 11-film Shindo retrospective (The Urge for Survival, which includes a feature the 99-year-old director completed this year), Hiroshima is a priori heartrending."

The L's Mark Asch notes that "opening night is now a benefit screening, acknowledging the layers of relevance accrued since the film was programmed. This 1952 atomic-fallout drama, where news-value location footage and statistics-quoting supporting cast coexist with social-issue-movie score and serious voiceover, stars moonfaced Nobuko Otowa, Shindo's wife and a star of all the films in the series save his most recent (she died in...

To celebrate the prolific Japanese master filmmaker Kaneto Shindo's 99th birthday and to help Japan disaster relief efforts, The Urge for Survival: Kaneto Shindo Retrospective, with 11 of his finest films will kick start its traveling show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Bam) on April 22nd through May 5th. The retro includes the Us premiere of his seminal Children of Hiroshima (1952) in a new 35mm print, The Naked Island (1960) (running concurrently with Children of Hiroshima for a week), Onibaba (1964), Kuroneko (1968) and his new film Postcard (2010).Apparently a long time fan of Shindo, Benicio Del Toro will be on hand along with the director's son, Jiro Shindo for the screening of The Naked Island today, his 99th birthday, April 22nd.Proceeds from...

My head is spinning at just how much is going on in this town; my nerves are wracked, and I've seen barely a handful of films from these events. So, what have we got on the menu, boys and girls?From Friday, April 22nd to Thursday, April 28th BAMcinematek and Benichio Del Toro will be hosting the U.S. theatrical premiere of Kaneto Shindo's seminal work, Children Of Hiroshima. It's a new 35mm print and in 'Scope. One of his best known works, The Naked Island will be running along side for the week as well. But that is just the icing on the cake. From the 28th 'til May 5th there will be screenings of Onibaba, The Ditch, and Live Today! Die Tomorrow among others. Full...