Kanji Kawara Movies

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

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

Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three...

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

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

1962 Japanese movie

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...

A youth movie depicting the love between college students.

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

During the Depression, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is sacked for defending an older colleague.

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’...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.