Reikichi Kawamura Movies

Japanese silent jidaigeki from 1927.

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

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

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

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

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 story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

1950s Japanese comedy.

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

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who...

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...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

The film features the first scene with kissing in a Japanese film. Kiss scenes were encouraged by the American occupiers of Japan following World War...

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.