Kanji Kawara Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

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.

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

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...

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...