Kanji Kawara Movies

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

1960 Japanese movie

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...

1962 Japanese movie

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

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

Japanese silent film from 1928.