Reikichi Kawamura Movies

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

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

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...

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...

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

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.

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...

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

Japanese war movie.

A 1937 Japanese film.

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

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

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...

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

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

A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunited.

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human...

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...

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

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...