Kaneto Shindo

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.

22 April 1912

Born on the same birth date (22 April 1912): Kathleen Ferrier

Born on the same birth day (22 April): Aaron Spelling • Dan Cloutier • Ellen Glasgow • Enno Penno • Ethel Smyth • Fritz Mayer van den Bergh • Germaine de Staël • Glen Campbell • Greville Howard, Baron Howard of Rising • Harald Bohr • Jack Nitzsche • Lewis Powell (conspirator) • Mary Prior • Michael Wittmann • Regine Velasquez • Ronald Hynd • Scott W. Williams • Sidney Nolan • Solomon Caesar Malan • Spencer Haywood • Wolf V. Vishniac • Wu Peifu • Yehudi Menuhin

Born in the same month (April 1912): A. E. van Vogt • Antonio Ferri • Bill Roberts (athlete) • Dorothy Eden • Earl Bostic • Georg Siimenson • Grigoris Lambrakis • Habib Elghanian • Hound Dog Taylor • Jacques de Bourbon-Busset • Kathleen Ferrier • Makar Honcharenko • Marcel Camus • Marta Eggerth • Odette Hallowes • Richard Carlson (actor) • Ruth Osburn • Sonja Henie • Zohra Sehgal