Name
Kanji Kawara
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1897-04-16
Deathday
1974-01-26 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Akō District, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Biography
Known For
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Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despi...
7.058
In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers fr...
6.9
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant prof...
5.293
Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catast...
6.316
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair...
6.7
A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left be...
6.091
Raucous small-time thief Kenji falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, but when she fin...
6.755
During the Depression, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is sacked ...
7.324
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the he...
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The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men...
- 1943 Dancing with a Mask as Englishman A
- 1942 Moon of the Plateau
- 1957 Night Butterflies as Fortune-teller
- 1936 Mr. Thank You
- 1938 Hotaru no hikari
- 1964 Muchana Yakko
- 1962 Princess and I
- 1941 Ornamental Hairpin as Old Man
- 1938 Queen of the Wind
- 1965 The Forest of No Escape
- 1955 The Romance of Yushima
- 1968 High School Geisha
- 1958 The Precipice
- 1959 The Cast-Off
- 1967 The Bogus Policeman
- 1930 Walk Cheerfully as Detective
- 1941 Notes of an Itinerant Performer as Kanekichi
- 1950 Town of Violence as Takada's father
- 1929 Parent
- 1957 Kisses
- 1927 Sword of Penitence as Manabe Tôjûrô, constable
- 1941 Introspection Tower as Mr. Kono
- 1929 The Dawning Sky
- 1956 Warning from Space
- 1937 The Lights of Asakusa
- 1939 Warm Current
- 1942 There Was a Father as Teacher of Junior High School
- 1943 Port of Flowers as Kesaji
- 1953 Brother and Sister
- 1966 The Great White Tower as Murai
- 1932 No Blood Relation as Detective
- 1937 Children in the Wind
- 1934 My Elder Brother as Sumako's housekeeper
- 1936 Men vs. Women
- 1931 Tokyo Chorus
- 1940 The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi as Okada, Warrant Officer
- 1956 Children Seeking a Mother as Nagasaki Orphanage Director
- 1958 A Mother's Journey
- 1958 The Lowest Man
- 1958 Mother as Principal
- 1958 The Women Divers
- 1958 A Grain of Wheat
- 1951 Honoo no hada
- 1964 Black Trump Card
- 1962 The Whale God
- 1960 Ashita kara otona da
- 1938 Mother and Child as Executive
- 1954 Victory or Defeat
- 1962 Their Legacy
- 1928 Symphony of Youth as Yozo Tomura
- 1929 The Blacksmith of the Forest as Kiyohiko Sugimoto
- 1930 Youth, Why Do You Cry? as Newspaper Reporter
- 1931 Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1 as Detective
- 1931 Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2 as Detective
- 1963 Sentimental Mobsters
- 1954 Rakka no mon
- 1947 Odoriko monogatari
- 1955 O Sorrowful White Snow of Mount Fuji
- 1951 Saijoke no kyoen
- 1957 A Woman's Skin
- 1948 Jōnetsu no ningyo
- 1955 Kawa no aru shitamachi no hanashi
- 1947 Chōchō shissō jiken
- 1948 Unmei no koyomi
- 1948 Platform at Night
- 1959 The Aristocrat's Stairs
- 1956 Asashio yushio
- 1955 A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
- 1949 Kenji to onnakanshu
- 1959 Various Flowers
- 1949 Aizenso
- 1950 Shimai hoshi
- 1951 Kyūjō hiroba
- 1951 Freedom School
- 1951 Enoshima Elegy
- 1952 Byakuran kōran
- 1952 Machi no kotengu
- 1953 Haha nami
- 1954 Shinzōyaburi no oka
- 1954 Four Mothers
