| DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Children of Hiroshima (Japanese: 原爆の子, Japanese: Genbaku no ko) is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Kaneto Shindō. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. Cast Nobuko Otowa - Takako Ishikawa Osamu Takizawa - Iwakichi Niwa Saito - Natsue Morikawa Tsuneko Yamanaka Shinya Ofuji Takashi Itō Chikako Hosokawa - Setsu, Takako's mother Masao Shimizu - Toshiaki, Takako's father Yuriko Hanabusa - Oine Tanie Kitabayashi - Otoyo Tsutomu Shimomoto - Natsue's husband Eijirô Tono Taiji Tonoyama - Owner of a ship Jukichi Uno - Koji (scenes deleted) Kaneto Shindō (新藤 兼人 Shindō Kaneto?, born April 28, 1912), Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Hiroshima, Shindō first joined the film developing lab of Shinkō Kinema in 1934. He later moved to the art department and began writing scripts on his own. He worked with Kenji Mizoguchi on several films, most notably being in charge of the sets for The 47 Ronin. He made his debut as a screenwriter with the film Nanshin josei in 1940. Moving to Shōchiku, he began writing scripts for Kōzaburō Yoshimura, scoring a critical hit with A Ball at the Anjo House in 1947. Shindō and Yoshimura left Shōchiku in 1950 to form the independent production company Kindai Eiga Kyōkai. In 1951, he made his debut as a director with Aisai monogatari. Shindō has often made films dealing with Hiroshima or the atomic bomb, such as Children of Hiroshima, Lucky Dragon No. 5, and ... |
