Kanji Kawara Filmes

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

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

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...

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

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 blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

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...

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....

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’...

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...

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...

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

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

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

In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.

A youth movie depicting the love between college students.

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