Reikichi Kawamura

AKA: Kawamura Reikichi
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1897-01-01

Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {90}

Returning Villager

1936-02-27 7.115

Mr. Thank You

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1949-10-17 7.539

Stray Dog

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for th ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Edokko

1949-06-04 0

Ishimatsu of the Forest

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

Mantaro

1952-06-19 0

Love's Cheerleader

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals ...
Genre :

Ginpei

1950-03-30 0

Sanshiro of Ginza

An early film by Kon Ichikawa ...
Genre :

1937-10-21 0

Marching Song

A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki. ...
Genre :War, Drama

1943-08-12 0

Middle-Aged Man

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

Tamekichi

1947-05-20 7.2

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Shôkiku's father

1933-04-01 6.925

Apart from You

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy. ...
Genre :Drama

1939-05-05 0

Zoku aizen katsura

1939 Japanese movie ...
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President Kuwabara

1952-05-30 0

Third Class Executives

1950s Japanese comedy. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bunkichi Tsumugi

1946-02-28 0

Iki na fûraibô

A lost film by Masahiro Makino ...
Genre :

1929-05-26 5.5

The Dawning Sky

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

1939-10-13 0

Surging Waves

Genre :

1944-05-25 0

Sailor

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 family business and refuses to accept it. ...
Genre :Drama

Father

1937-11-11 7.6

Children in the Wind

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement. ...
Genre :Drama

A neighbor

1936-05-14 0

Woman in the Mist

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 wastrel life. Bunkichi admonishes the boy to study harder ...
Genre :Drama

1931-04-17 0

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

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 lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island ...
Genre :

1937-08-13 0

A Man's Recompense: Part 1

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 to conduct an excavation. Sabun gets along well with ...
Genre :

1937-08-24 0

A Man's Recompense: Part 2

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 to conduct an excavation. Sabun gets along well with ...
Genre :

1942-10-29 0

A Certain Woman

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who eventually becomes a merchant marine. When Oshige ...
Genre :

1940-06-13 0

Torrent of a Big City

A young yakuza student is led back to the straight and narrow path by his uncle. ...
Genre :

1942-07-09 0

Otoko no iki

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 little bit of sadness in the film (as the war was getti ...
Genre :

1942-09-17 0

South Wind

Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm Current", Shin Saburi, Mieko Takamine and Mitsuko Mito ...
Genre :Drama

Isoyama - Chief

1937-07-18 7

The Trio's Engagements

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

足袋銀

1951-02-03 0

情艶一代女

Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins training with the Onnagata Kikugoro VI as a dancer. She leaves her geisha life to pursue t ...
Genre :

Gunji Ōhira

1937-12-02 5.6

The Lights of Asakusa

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous ...
Genre :Drama

1951-04-13 0

男の哀愁

Genre :

Fujio Gyōda

1939-04-01 5.6

A Brother and His Younger Sister

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 to receive romantic attention from one of her co-wo ...
Genre :Drama

Ôsaki's father

1934-11-01 0

Eclipse

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love ...
Genre :Drama

Seijiro

1934-09-14 0

Osayo koisugata

The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble paying his bills, is the girl Saya who becomes the mode ...
Genre :Drama

1935-06-15 6.7

Okoto and Sasuke

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 Junichiro. ...
Genre :Drama

Teizo

1935-06-15 6.7

Okoto and Sasuke

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 Junichiro. ...
Genre :Drama

Kageyama

1938-04-01 7

So Goes My Love

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns from working in a café. Shigeo is not happy with ...
Genre :Drama

1943-09-10 0

Our Planes Fly South

Genre :Drama, War

1923-07-01 0

The Woman and the Pirate

Genre :Drama

Haruki

1938-09-15 6.5

The Tree of Love

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run away to Kyoto, but her child suddenly became sick a ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Kubota, an engineer

1933-02-01 6.5

The Dancing Girl of Izu

"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 there, including their youngest girl. The student ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Kajikawa

1941-03-16 6.8

Notes of an Itinerant Performer

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who ...
Genre :Drama

Neighbor's husband

1933-01-14 0

The Bride Talks in Her Sleep

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 early Japanese sound cinema and the social milieux tha ...
Genre :Comedy

1942-10-22 0

South Wind 2

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 proposes a scam to make some quick cash. It involved inve ...
Genre :Drama

1946-08-15 0

The Woman Who Holds the Key

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso. ...
Genre :Drama

Keizô, Osumi's brother

1939-04-01 7

Okayo's Preparedness

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs. ...
Genre :Drama

Sangin's Customer

1950-08-08 7

The Munekata Sisters

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few ...
Genre :Drama

1950-07-08 0

Beyond the Hills

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

1944-03-23 0

Sinking the Unsinkable

Japanese Warmovie ...
Genre :War

Menosô

1934-02-22 0

The Genealogy of Women

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

Bando Tokichi

1948-09-02 7

365 Nights

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and decides to marry her. Only to discover that his fat ...
Genre :Drama

1951-01-13 0

Nightshade Flower

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi. ...
Genre :

1945-08-30 0

Izu no musumetachi

Genre :Drama

Yuichi's father

1945-02-22 5.2

Victory Song

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors. ...
Genre :Drama

Shigeta

1934-12-13 6

My Elder Brother

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his mother. Jyuta tries to correct him… ...
Genre :Drama

1941-12-29 0

Suzhou Nights

A hostile Chinese nurse (Yamaguchi) who works in an orphanage is won over by the care and commitment of the Japanese doctor (Sano) who treats her wards. Disease outbreaks and family obligations, howev ...
Genre :Drama

Yoshi-san

1935-01-07 4

Lumberjack and Lady

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 great comedy and drama from a team of distinctive ap ...
Genre :Drama

1937-04-17 5.3

Vermilion and Green

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

Father

1939-01-28 8.3

Four Seasons of Children

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their grandfather, which means making new friends and st ...
Genre :Drama

Nozawa

1932-04-14 7

First Steps Ashore

The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide. ...
Genre :Drama

1933-03-15 0

Island Girl

Japanese silent film. ...
Genre :Drama

Dr.Sawamura

1940-08-01 5

Wood and Stone

Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of his supposed stubbornness. No.10 in the list of "The 10 best films of 1940" by Kin ...
Genre :Drama

Keizo

1937-01-14 0

Song of the Flower Basket

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

Sadanosuke Kajiwara

1936-04-03 0

Family Meeting

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

Kensaku

1940-04-17 0

Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru

Genre :War, Drama

1929-12-01 0

Mother

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

Doi

1937-01-05 5

Moon Over the Ruins

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song. ...
Genre :Drama

Yamamoto

1952-07-15 7.8

Tokyo Sweetheart

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner a ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1943-11-18 7

The Living Magoroku

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

Suyama

1952-01-03 0

The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa

Genre :Drama

1951-04-07 0

Wakai musumetachi

Genre :Drama

1942-04-23 0

The Spy Has Not Died Yet

Genre :Drama, War

Suzuki

1941-03-01 6.9

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of ...
Genre :Drama

1949-06-04 0

Ishimatsu of the Forest

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

Rokuzo

1930-04-26 0

Reijin

Genre :Romance

Genshichi

1927-10-14 0

Sword of Penitence

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

1936-08-29 0

Men vs. Women

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Drama

桑原/Kuwabara

1946-05-23 0

Twenty-Year-Old Youth

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 II as it encouraged westernization and contrasted ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1931-03-26 0

Nikutai no bōfū

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

Jubei

1943-04-01 0

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

Japanese war movie. ...
Genre :War

Father

1943-03-11 0

Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home

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 after the war. Previously, there is only a 6-minut ...
Genre :Family, Drama

Kudō

1938-07-01 0

Mother and Child

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 mother's loneliness, while also having an affair with ...
Genre :Drama

1940-03-31 6

Kinuyo's First Love

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 relationships in a town of customs and manners. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1948-10-12 0

Living Image

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

1951-08-03 0

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part ...
Genre :

1933-11-09 0

Love

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the life of his son. The sister Machiko is the essential ...
Genre :Drama

1942-12-11 0

Dance of the Capital

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film ...
Genre :

1952-02-02 0

Mr. Lucky

Genre :Drama

1940-12-31 0

Okinu and Banto

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks. ...
Genre :Drama

1937-01-21 0

Renai muteki kantai

A 1937 Japanese film. ...
Genre :

1950-01-15 0

First Love Questions and Answers

Genre :Drama

1951-11-01 0

Over That Hill

Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father who has successfully returned to Japan. Mariko is simply confused by the life in Tokyo, w ...
Genre :Drama

1952-01-03 0

Merry Migratory Birds

Midori (Misora), the adopted daughter of Kinnosuke (Kawamura), a ship carpenter in a port town, was born a good singer. Her mother is dead, her father has been missing since he left for war, and the o ...
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