Kanji Kawara

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

Release : 1943.10.28
Popularity : 0.796

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

Release : 1942.05.14
Popularity : 1.507

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

Release : 1957.04.01
Popularity : 2.166

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

Release : 1936.02.27
Popularity : 6.864

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

Release : 1938.04.14
Popularity : 0.69

A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching! Miyoshi Oki was born in Hokkaido and grew up...

Release : 1964.07.04
Popularity : 0.358

1962 Japanese movie

Release : 1962.04.29
Popularity : 0.75

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...

Release : 1941.08.26
Popularity : 1.547

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...

Release : 1938.02.17
Popularity : 0.648

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

Release : 1965.01.23
Popularity : 2.501

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

Release : 1955.09.28
Popularity : 1.305

Release : 1968.09.21
Popularity : 1.789

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...

Release : 1958.03.17
Popularity : 2.676

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...

Release : 1959.05.13
Popularity : 2.123

Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while...

Release : 1967.04.29
Popularity : 2.067

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...

Release : 1930.03.01
Popularity : 1.76

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...

Release : 1941.03.16
Popularity : 1.029

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

Release : 1950.02.26
Popularity : 1.952

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

Release : 1929.08.01
Popularity : 2.264

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

Release : 1957.07.23
Popularity : 3.316

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

Release : 1927.10.14
Popularity : 0.368

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

Release : 1941.01.30
Popularity : 1.644

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

Release : 1929.05.26
Popularity : 0.638

Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien...

Release : 1956.01.29
Popularity : 5.325

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

Release : 1937.12.02
Popularity : 1.527

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...

Release : 1939.12.01
Popularity : 1.4

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

Release : 1942.04.01
Popularity : 5.562

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

Release : 1966.10.15
Popularity : 2.376

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...

Release : 1953.08.19
Popularity : 2.045

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’...

Release : 1943.07.29
Popularity : 1.907

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.

Release : 1937.11.11
Popularity : 1.962

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

Release : 1932.12.16
Popularity : 2.956

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...

Release : 1934.12.13
Popularity : 1.04

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

Release : 1936.08.29
Popularity : 0.907

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

Release : 1931.08.15
Popularity : 4.837

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

Release : 1940.12.01
Popularity : 1.535

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

Release : 1956.08.08
Popularity : 0.542

Release : 1958.09.21
Popularity : 1.411

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...

Release : 1958.09.07
Popularity : 1.219

Release : 1958.03.05
Popularity : 2.663