Takashi Kawamata Movies

Comedy around a motorman and a conductor of a streetcar.

Romantic drama based on the manga published in Young Comic.

Two men succeed in opening a joint restaurant after hilarious troubles.

Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and...

A straight-laced police officer is reassigned to the vice squad tasked with cracking down on underground pornography rings. While investigating a...

Soichiro Ishizuka, the head of a prestigious Tokyo textile company, lives a comfortable life with his wife and three daughters. Their current family...

Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.

Set in the downtown area in the heart of Tokyo, this film depicts the lives of poor but kind-hearted people.

Two born rivals plot a new start after a string of ups and downs.

Based on the comic by Mitsutoshi Furuya

A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event...

A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.

Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very bad manners. Moulin, Kakumaru's former partner,...

Constructed as an experimental montage of still photographs, "Diary of Yunbogi" reflects on poverty and historical responsibility through the...

A young surgeon and a nurse working at a hospital fall in love, but numerous trials stand in their way.

Shochiku's up-and-coming stars take the stage in a series of short skits parodying popular films of the time.

The film is based on the 1959 hit song of the same name by the Three Cats.