Movies: Takashi Kanda

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Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a high school. On the beach, he meets a young fisherman, Yusuke (Norihiko Yamamoto) also a student of the...

The daughter of a Prime Minister turns down the proposal of a young teacher when she falls for the wrong man. Despite the continual degradation by the man she loves, she is unwilling to leave her awful relationship....

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a fi...

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A High Class Call Girl is revisited by her ex lover who she thought died 5 years prior....

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war ....

This movie depicts a familiar samurai Tange Sazen story realistically. Tange loses one of his eyes and arms in an attempt to recover a masterpiece sword for his lord. However, his efforts are not appreciated and he becomes a man of hatred....

A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai pursues Chiyo, the mistress of a man who was arrested for extortion, and takes advantage of her weakness. However, as his colleag...

The first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but decided to leave after his best friend died a brutal death at the hands of the gang leader. He goes on a trip with a guitar in his hand and ends up in Yok...

Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners....

Fukasaku and Chiba are back in a sequel filmed with the same cast and released just two weeks after the first film. This time the storyline is set in a small seaside town and the film favours detective and watadori film influences over westerns. Like...

1950s Japanese drama....

Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker....

A princess in disguise, Oshichi launches an investigation to reveal the truth about the disappearance of young women in Edo....

This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of Military Affairs, about the beginning of the incident 2.26 and the execution of young officers....

Cold-blooded obligations and loyalty in the gambler's world....

The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat....

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa....

Woman private eye Emiko goes undercover to reveal the truth of a murder case....