Kenji Kawai

Kenji Kawai

Movies for Kenji Kawai...

The International Gang of Kobe
Title: The International Gang of Kobe
Character: Police Chief
Released: October 14, 1975
Type: Movie
In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs.
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The Gambling Monk
Title: The Gambling Monk
Released: October 13, 1963
Type: Movie
One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...
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Facing to the Clouds
Title: Facing to the Clouds
Released: May 1, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Wind and waves of the South
Title: Wind and waves of the South
Character: Professor
Released: November 19, 1961
Type: Movie
Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth of mother's hands. It seemed that joy settled in their house again. But one day a storm caught the fishermen at sea. Father did not return... Father's friends, fishermen, tried to help the widow, who was left with two children. But the money was still not enough. And then Kazuo decided to become a fisherman. After all, he was now the eldest in the family...
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He Killed Dad
Title: He Killed Dad
Released: January 9, 1961
Type: Movie
The lives of two brothers, Kunio and Akira Kasahara, are changed forever when their father is murdered. Kunio sets out on a manhunt to avenge his father and will stop at nothing until he finds the killer. Setsuko, Kunio's fiancée, is unable to keep up with the lunacy that Kunio stirs up and finds comfort with another man - his brother, Akira.
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Smashing the 0-Line
Title: Smashing the 0-Line
Character: Saeki
Released: June 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?
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Who is in the Background?
Title: Who is in the Background?
Released: December 6, 1959
Type: Movie
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The Sky Is Mine
Title: The Sky Is Mine
Released: November 1, 1959
Type: Movie
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Farewell to Southern Tosa
Title: Farewell to Southern Tosa
Released: August 2, 1959
Type: Movie
Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.
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Zesshou
Title: Zesshou
Character: Sano
Released: October 15, 1958
Type: Movie
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The Boy Who Came Back
Title: The Boy Who Came Back
Character: Моридзаки
Released: June 29, 1958
Type: Movie
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
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Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
Title: Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
Released: April 29, 1958
Type: Movie
"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle for the popular singer/actor Yūjirō Ishihara.
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I Am Waiting
Title: I Am Waiting
Character: Shimaki's older brother
Released: October 22, 1957
Type: Movie
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
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Saigo no totsugeki
Title: Saigo no totsugeki
Released: January 22, 1957
Type: Movie
A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized by Toyama Tetsu of “Smuggling of the Body”, also directed by Yutaka Abe, and Shigeyoshi Mine of “Densuke's Propaganda” was in charge of the shooting. The main performers are Michitaro Mizushima of “Smuggling of the Body”, Ryoji Hayama of “The Sorrowful Garden”, Shoji Yasui of “The People of Okino”, Shiro Osaka of “Lonely Man”, “Tetsuji Kawakami Story 16” In addition to Hiroshi Nihonyanagi, Shinsuke Maki, Isamu Kosugi of the "Hunger Soul", Ko Mishima, Satoshi Nishimura, Saburo Hiromatsu, Hiroshi Kondo and others.
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Hi no tori
Title: Hi no tori
Released: June 14, 1956
Type: Movie
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she performed enthusiastically on the stage that night, attracting a crowded audience.
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The Battleship Yamato
Title: The Battleship Yamato
Character: Ensign Eguchi
Released: June 15, 1953
Type: Movie
The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship Yamato".
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Lil's Return from Shanghai
Title: Lil's Return from Shanghai
Character: Jiro
Released: April 4, 1952
Type: Movie
In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and tries to recreate the world he knew then.
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Wakôdo no uta
Title: Wakôdo no uta
Character: Kono
Released: August 31, 1951
Type: Movie