Kanji Kawara Movies

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

Genre: History

Cast: Shin Saburi

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....

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Cast: Hajime Asada

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Kuwano

A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching! Miyoshi Oki was born in Hokkaido and grew up...

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Cast: Taro Marui

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for...

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Cast: Kaneko Fujiwara

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

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Cast: Masako Mizuki

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause...

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Cast: Kenji Sugawara

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Minoru Takada

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenzo Asada

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.

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Cast: Mariko Aoyama

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Two criminal brothers try to go straight but face opposition from one of their criminal cohorts. Considered to be a lost film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hikaru Kicchôji

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin'yō Nara

A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunited.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Kawada

Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Keizō Kawasaki

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

Genre: War

Cast: Eitarō Ozawa

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin'yō Nara

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tokihiko Okada

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.

Genre: War

Cast: Shozaburo Abe

While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nao Abe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadashi Date

A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aiko Mimasu

A youth movie depicting the love between college students.

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Cast: Keizō Kawasaki