Kanji Kawara Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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

A youth movie depicting the love between college students.

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

1962 Japanese movie

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

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

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

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...

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...