Reikichi Kawamura Movies

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...

Early Japanese sound film, a remake of Josef von Sternberg’s DOCKS OF NEW YORK set in Yokohama.

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

Japanese war movie.

"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...

A 1937 Japanese film.

Japanese Warmovie

1939 Japanese movie

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

This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a...

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

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...

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

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 lost film by Masahiro Makino