Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home...

Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an...

Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible spasms. The doctor checks on her and arrives at...

A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

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...

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

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...

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the...

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

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

A girl suffering from an incurable disease get in a coma, while her boyfriend visit her to the hospital, she visits the beyond.

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...

Uta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love triangle between a lustful priest, his second wife and...

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

The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata...