Reikichi Kawamura Movies

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...

Shochiku melodrama about the lives of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

Japanese war movie.

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble...

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father who has successfully returned to...

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

1939 Japanese movie