SHINDO, Kaze

Source: chukobu-np.co.jp

新藤風

b. November 20, 1976

• granddaughter of the legendary film director and screenwriter Kaneto Shindo (Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko)
• daughter of film producer Jiro Shindo
• graduated from the Japan Academy of Moving Images in 1998
• worked as an assistant director before directing her debut feature Love Juice (2000)
• Love Juice won the Wolfgang Staudte Prize in the Young Forum section at the Berlinale