Kanji Kawara
Birthday: 1897-04-16
Place of Birth: Akō District, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Moon of the Plateau
An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (T...
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Mr. Thank You
In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mou...
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Hotaru no hikari
Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip ...
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Muchana Yakko
A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching...
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Ornamental Hairpin
A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a ...
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Queen of the Wind
A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The c...
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The Romance of Yushima
Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to ...
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The Precipice
Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s D...
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The Cast-Off
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executiv...
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The Bogus Policeman
Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismi...
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Walk Cheerfully
Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and si...
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Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a tr...
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Street of Violence
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chie...
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Parent
A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu....
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Kisses
Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bic...
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Sword of Penitence
Two criminal brothers try to go straight but face opposition from one of their criminal cohorts. Con...
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Introspection Tower
A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers an...
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The Dawning Sky
A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunite...
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Warning from Space
Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To ...
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The Lights of Asakusa
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...
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Warm Current
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital,...
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There Was a Father
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither...
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Children in the Wind
On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is impri...
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Brother and Sister
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a co...
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Port of Flowers
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the ou...
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The Great White Tower
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at ...
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No Blood Relation
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her ga...
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My Elder Brother
Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza w...
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Men vs. Women
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the er...
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Tokyo Chorus
In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his ...
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The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi
Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losin...
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Children Seeking a Mother
While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son....
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The Lowest Man
A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release ...
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A Grain of Wheat
The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to ...
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Black Trump Card
Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose ...
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The Whale God
A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it....
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Mother and Child
The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his ne...
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Their Legacy
Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmar...
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The Blacksmith of the Forest
A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the f...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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Sentimental Mobsters
A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with h...
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