Kanji Kawara

AKA: Kawahara Kanji, 河原森月, Moritsuki Kavakhara

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1897-04-16

Akō District, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {55}

Englishman A

1943-10-28 0

Dancing with a Mask

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident. ...

Genre :History

1942-05-14 0

Moon of the Plateau

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains. As for their parents, father was serving in the So ...

Genre :

Fortune-teller

1957-04-01 6.3

Night Butterflies

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

Genre :Drama

1936-02-27 6.988

Mr. Thank You

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

Genre :Drama, Comedy

1938-04-14 0

Hotaru no hikari

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who will soon leave school. They thank her doing so and g ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1964-07-04 0

Muchana Yakko

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 in a dirty carriage that his father owned. His dream ...

Genre :

1962-04-29 0

Princess and I

1962 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

Old Man

1941-08-26 6.7

Ornamental Hairpin

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 the other patrons regarding her identity. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

1938-02-17 0

Queen of the Wind

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 special training and the man tries to get the genera ...

Genre :Drama

1965-01-23 0

The Forest of No Escape

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

Genre :Mystery

1955-09-28 6

The Romance of Yushima

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secr ...

Genre :Drama

1968-09-21 0

High School Geisha

Genre :

1958-03-18 0

The Precipice

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 of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made i ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Romance

1959-05-13 6

The Cast-Off

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 world is changing completely : his wife behaves lik ...

Genre :Drama

1967-04-29 0

The Bogus Policeman

Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while doing one of his good deeds. He saves a child from dr ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Detective

1930-03-01 6.1

Walk Cheerfully

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 really is, she leaves him "until he becomes an hon ...

Genre :Romance, Crime, Drama

Kanekichi

1941-03-16 6.8

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 traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who ...

Genre :Drama

Takada's father

1950-02-26 6.5

Street of Violence

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

Genre :Drama, Crime

1929-08-01 0

Parent

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

Genre :

1957-07-23 6.6

Kisses

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

Genre :Drama, Romance

Manabe Tôjûrô, constable

1927-10-14 0

Sword of Penitence

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

Genre :Drama

Mr. Kono

1941-01-30 6.7

Introspection Tower

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is often short on water, and one day, the well runs dry. ...

Genre :Drama

1929-05-26 5.5

The Dawning Sky

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

Genre :Drama, Comedy

1956-01-27 5.2

Warning from Space

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

Genre :Science Fiction, Horror

1937-12-02 5.6

The Lights of Asakusa

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous ...

Genre :Drama

1939-12-01 4

Warm Current

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 daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nur ...

Genre :Drama

Teacher of Junior High School

1942-04-01 6.955

There Was a Father

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

Genre :Drama

1966-10-15 6.7

The Great White Tower

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothin ...

Genre :Drama

1953-08-19 6.222

Brother and Sister

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 will threaten the marriage prospects of the younge ...

Genre :Drama

Kesaji

1943-07-29 7.042

Port of Flowers

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’ plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of cons ...

Genre :War, Drama, Comedy

1937-11-11 7.6

Children in the Wind

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. ...

Genre :Drama

Detective

1932-12-16 7.1

No Blood Relation

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

Genre :Drama

Sumako's housekeeper

1934-12-13 6

My Elder Brother

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 mother. Jyuta tries to correct him… ...

Genre :Drama

1936-08-29 0

Men vs. Women

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

Genre :Comedy, Music, Drama

1931-08-15 6.7

Tokyo Chorus

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

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Okada, Warrant Officer

1940-12-01 6

The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi

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

Genre :War

1956-08-08 0

Children Seeking a Mother

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

Genre :Drama

1958-09-21 5

A Mother's Journey

Genre :Drama

1958-09-07 0

The Lowest Man

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 kill him. ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

Principal

1958-03-05 0

Mother

Genre :Drama

1958-08-12 0

The Women Divers

A youth movie depicting the love between college students. ...

Genre :

1958-09-14 0

A Grain of Wheat

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 watch over them. Co-written by newcomer Shigeki Chiba ...

Genre :Drama

1951-10-19 0

Honoo no hada

Genre :Drama

1964-07-25 6

Black Trump Card

Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three people are sacrificed to his greed. The president of a s ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1962-07-15 6.8

The Whale God

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

Genre :Adventure, Drama

1960-02-24 0

Ashita kara otona da

1960 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

Executive

1938-07-01 0

Mother and Child

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 mother's loneliness, while also having an affair with ...

Genre :Drama

1954-12-01 0

Victory or Defeat

Genre :Drama

1962-01-03 0

Their Legacy

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500, ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Yozo Tomura

1928-12-31 0

Symphony of Youth

Japanese silent film from 1928. ...

Genre :Drama

Kiyohiko Sugimoto

1929-01-05 0

The Blacksmith of the Forest

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 blacksmith's younger son is disabled, and the other children i ...

Genre :Drama

Newspaper Reporter

1930-11-15 0

Youth, Why Do You Cry?

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home. ...

Genre :Drama

Detective

1931-04-17 0

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 alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island ...

Genre :

Detective

1931-04-17 0

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

Genre :

1963-07-27 0

Sentimental Mobsters

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and ...