Kanji Kawara Movies

1962 Japanese movie

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...

A youth movie depicting the love between college students.

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

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

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

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his...

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...

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

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

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

A musical film marking Yoshiko Yamaguchi's debut at Daiei.

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

One night, a college student is found dead, his body charred black. The victim’s girlfriend, Nobuko, vanishes right before the eyes of the...