Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

A moving story depicting the spirit of a young marathon runner who set a new world record in Boston, encouraged by the love of his family, a young...

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and...

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers'...

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old...

Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that are thrust upon him. One involves a a painting...

Comedy of a phony doctor.

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

Japanese drama film.

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.