Reikichi Kawamura Movies

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

Japanese film from 1925.

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hibari no Circus Sad Kobato" starring Hibari Misora...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

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 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...

Japanese silent comedy from 1930. The directorial debut of Hiromasa Nomura.

The love of an older sister who worked as a geisha but decided to open a bar under the auspices of a millionaire

Japanese silent film.

Film can be viewed on the National Film Archive of Japan YouTube channel under the title...

Japanese silent jidaigeki from 1927.

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...