Movies: Takashi Kanda

The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's corpse however, was infested with deadly bacteria and the men have only 30 hours left to live......

First film of the The Black Hooded Man series....

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother....

A taxi robbery and murder occurred in Fukagawa late at night. Detectives Nagata and Miyagawa of the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division, who suspect the perpetrator as a habitual offender, flew to Yanagibashi using the remai...

A princess in disguise, Oshichi launches an investigation to reveal the truth about the disappearance of young women in Edo....

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The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war ....

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business....

This movie depicts a familiar samurai Tange Sazen story realistically. Tange loses one of his eyes and arms in an attempt to recover a masterpiece sword for his lord. However, his efforts are not appreciated and he becomes a man of hatred....

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A tragic drama - a dismembered torso of a woman rises up on the banks of the Arakawa River. The body is only the torso. Her legs were discovered on the opposite bank. The only clue, a man was trying to throw something in from a car with a license pla...

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Based on the Nobu Koito story...

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant....

The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat....

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families....

1950s Japanese drama....

Patrol car 108 is on the prowl in Tokyo when it comes across a suspicious small truck. When the policeman investigates he is shot and the truck makes its getaway....

A man challenges a territorial fight between gangs....

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love....