Reikichi Kawamura Movies

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

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

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 fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.

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

1950s Japanese comedy.

Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the...

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

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...

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...

A popular work depicting Osen Taruya, with the theme of romantic liberation.

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

1939 Japanese movie

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins...