Kanji Kawara Movies

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

Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he...

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

1962 Japanese movie

A youth movie depicting the love between college students.