While it's not uncommon for film directors to work into their senior years, not many have managed to maintain the will and physical strength to continue to age 98.

But Kaneto Shindo is driven by his strong opposition to war and nuclear weapons, and the award-winning director and scriptwriter is still shooting films despite now having to use a wheelchair.

Nearly 60 years after making "Genbaku no Ko" ("Children of the Atomic Bomb") in 1952 about his native Hiroshima, the first independent film produced by his production company, Shindo is now making a movie about the war and the leadup to the bombing in what he calls his "last piece of work."