Takashi Kawamata Movies

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

Romantic drama based on the manga published in Young Comic.

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 nurse is caring for a patient in a life and death situation whilst also dealing with her own emotional issues.

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

The golden duo of Yoshitaro Mura and Kiyoshi Atsumi brings you a full-on comedy filled with laughter and melancholy set in Kitakyushu. Matsujiro...

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

Based on the comic by Mitsutoshi Furuya

Comedy around a motorman and a conductor of a streetcar.

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

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

Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.

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

Daisuke Hamamura (Hiroshi Inuzuka), a driving instructor, is rather unremarkable and doesn't attract the attention of the women around him; the only...

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...

Taiji (Kawazu Yusuke), who works at Noble Cosmetics, wants to marry his girlfriend Tomie (Kuwano Miyuki), but is having a hard time saving up the...

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