Kanji Kawara Movies

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...

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

1960 Japanese movie

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

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...

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...

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

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

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

A youth movie depicting the love between college students.

1962 Japanese movie

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...

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

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