<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I just wanted to wish the great director Shindo Kaneto a happy birthday. On today April 22, 2012, he reached the young age of 100. <div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaneto_Shindo">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaneto_Shindo</a><br><div><br></div><div>Are there other Japanese directors who reached 100? Inuzuka Minoru, who was both a screenwriter and a director, died in 2007 of the age of 106 (I think he may have been the last surviving director of a commercial silent feature in the world when he passed away). Do people know of any others?</div><br><br><div>
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