Kanji Kawara Movies

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

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among...

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

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

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together...

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

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

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

A youth movie depicting the love between college students.

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

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

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

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

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

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...