# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kaneto-shindo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:58:59.085Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kaneto-shindo"
name: "Kaneto Shindō"
slug: "kaneto-shindo"
description: "Kaneto Shindō  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. His screenplays were filmed by directors such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Seijun Suzuki, and Tadashi Imai."
tagline: "Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and author. (1912–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shindo_Kaneto.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1912-04-22"
deathDate: "2012-05-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.020716
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793881/"
    handle:    "nm0793881"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "신도 가네토"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kaneto Shindō"
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    title: "Синдо, Канэто"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Kaneto Shindō"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump