Kanji Kawara
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Kanji Kawara.
Born: April 16, 1897
Place of Birth: Akō District, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Known For
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.
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.
Mr. Thank You
In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.
There Was a Father
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
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 conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita’s directorial debut is a breezy, warmhearted, and often very funny crowd-pleaser that’s a testament to the filmmaker’s faith in people.
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 travel from town to town, setting up street performances. A way of escape from this marginal existence arises when she gets the chance to move to tea merchant Hiramatsu’s place, where she is asked to teach his daughter to dance.
The Whale God
A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.
Tokyo Chorus
In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.
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.
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.
Filmography
as Principal
as Fortune-teller
as Takada's father
as Englishman A
as Kesaji
as Teacher of Junior High School
as Old Man
as Kanekichi
as Mr. Kono
as Okada, Warrant Officer
as Executive
as Sumako's housekeeper
as Detective
as Detective
as Detective
as Newspaper Reporter
as Detective
as Kiyohiko Sugimoto
as Manabe Tôjûrô, constable