Kanji Kawara Movies

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...

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’...

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

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

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

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

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

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...

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

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...

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

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

A youth movie depicting the love between college students.

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