Reikichi Kawamura Movies

A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Two criminal brothers try to go straight but face opposition from one of their criminal cohorts. Considered to be a lost film.

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

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

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 lost film by Masahiro Makino

1950s Japanese comedy.

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

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...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for some...

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

The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star.

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting...

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...