Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.

A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her...

In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover...

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the...

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...

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

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.

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

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya...

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.

Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation...

In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors...