Movies: Takashi Kanda

A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves....

A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in back. But he makes the fatal mistake of hosting a 100 Ghost Stories ceremony without the closing clea...

Ryô is a young leopard, Maki a rhythmical wave. The barrier between a teacher and a student gives way to the passionate embrace of a man and a woman desperately in love....

Fifth film in the Boy Detectives Club series....

Sixth film in the Boy Detectives Club series....

Eighth film in the Boy Detectives Club series....

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

A man who lost his wife and a woman whose husband died have a fateful meeting in connection with a double suicide and fall madly in love....

Sonny Chiba is a young gambler on the run. He pretends to be an innocent student, and is taken in by an honorable Yakuza in Tokyo's Asakusa district....

The mysterious black hooded man, Kurozukin, helps transport funds raised to fight against the government....

One of the earliest of sukeban / girl boss type eiga...

1961 Japanese movie...

Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s henchman hears her singing and takes a liking to her beautiful voice. The trouble starts when her family borrows money from the gangsters,...

Astronomer Shinichi Tachibana has a secret identity as the superhero "Iron Sharp" and is well beloved by children. When they are attacked by a group of metallic aliens, Iron Sharp drives the aliens away. The resourceful Tachibana helps develop an ele...

A touching drama about a love triangle between a young architect, Koroku, and two women, Ranko and Teruko. Ranko comes from a wealthy family and is offering to repay Koroku’s family debts in exchange for marriage, but Koroku is in love with his landl...

The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a memorial ceremony for the late Chigusa lord, Mikoshiba launches an attack, overthrowing the honorable Lord Juro. Just when all seems lost, Daimajin r...

1961 Japanese movie...

A young girl searches for her long-lost brother in postwar Tokyo, clinging to hope and music amid the rubble of a broken Japan. Along the way, she touches the hearts of those around her with her resilience and song....

Sonny Chiba's first martial arts film, a partially fictionalized judo biopic based on prominent judoka Shiro Saigo (Chiba), the second student of judo founder Jigoro Kano (Naoki Sugiura). Akira Kurosawa’s Sanshiro Sugata is based on the same characte...

Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital after being thrown by Nobuyoshi Shinohara during practice and injured, he met Asako, the sister of Arisa...