Kanji Kawara Movies

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

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his...

1960 Japanese movie

An entertainment film set in a movie studio, featuring songs and hidden talents performed by male and female stars.

Raucous small-time thief Kenji falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, but when she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him until...

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

Set in the midst of the Satsuma Rebellion, this story depicts the sadness of a woman’s heart. Though she hates the Imperial Army captain who...

A sweet and melancholy melodrama set against the backdrop of the beautiful Seto Inland Sea, in which a pair of twin sisters, one a young lady of high...

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

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.

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...

Deep down, a dark shadow always lingered in the heart of Ushio, a young prosecutor who had made a name for himself by cracking down on organized...

Eiji Izutsu, a young architectural engineer, suddenly came into a massive inheritance on the condition that he marry a woman named Chigusa Takemura,...

A romance between a young koto prodigy and the head of a koto school’s daughter.

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...

Centered on a young college student who puts his youthful passion into developing true judo and the fiery mentor he admires and studies under.

A beautiful dancer who lost her mother and was raised abroad searches for her long-lost father in the homeland she has always longed for.