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.

28 April 1912

Born on the same birth date (28 April 1912): Odette Hallowes

Born on the same birth day (28 April): Aryeh Bibi • Carolyn Jones • Erich Salomon • Hal Sutton • Marcia Strassman • Mary McDonnell • Miodrag Radulovacki • Nicola Romeo • Sidney Toler • Stephen Ames • Too Short • William Hall (VC) • Ye Jianying

Born in the same month (April 1912): A. E. van Vogt • Antonio Ferri • Dorothy Eden • Eve Arnold • Georg Siimenson • Grigoris Lambrakis • Kathleen Ferrier • Marcel Camus • Marta Eggerth • Odette Hallowes • Richard Carlson (actor) • Robert Doisneau • Zohra Sehgal