Mitsuo Kaneda

Ghost from the Continent

Horror film directed by Satoru Kobayashi. Kin'ya Ogawa served as Kobayashi's assistant on this film.

Irregularity of Sex

Early pinku.

Okinawan Horror: Upside-Down Ghost - Chinese Horror: Breaking a Coffin

During a fever, Tateo, the male protagonist believes he is dying and has the hallucination that his beautiful wife, Reiko (Tamaki Katori), the daughter of a wealthy family, is having an affair w/ another man. He then tells her an ancient Chinese story: the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi wanted to test the faithfulness of his wife, so he faked his own death; the wife was grief-stricken and went into mourning. While funeral arrangements were in progress, a handsome young man came to call on Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi's wife soon fell into love w/ the young man and decided to marry hi. However, the young man fell ill; his servant said that the only medicine to cure him is human brain. Zhuangzi's wife eventually decided to break his husband's coffin and take his brain. However the young man turns out be Zhuangzi in disguise.

The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.

Elegy of a Geisha

1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".

人形佐七捕物帖　鮮血の乳房

Sashichi investigates the mysterious murders of four beauties, all of whom were stabbed in the chest.

Ningyō Sashichi torimonochō: Koshimoto Irezumi Shibijin

The fifth volume of the Ningyo Sana Torimonocho series. Based on the original work by Seishi Yokomizo, the film was adapted by Mitsuo Kaneda (The Nude Model Murder Case), directed by Tatsuo Yamada, who worked on The Golden Bugyo, and shot by Kikuzo Kawasaki. Keiko Hibino, Shigeru Amachi, Tomisaburo Wakayama

Nude Model Murder Case

Nude models are being brutally murdered one after another. Is the painter with the dark sunglasses really the killer?

Cordon at Dawn

1957 crime film