Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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.

Part 2 of a 2-part romance (first part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is...

On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large...

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...

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

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.

Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry...

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...

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

Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move out of her apartment. As she nears rock bottom,...

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

Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr. Matsukuma, although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and...

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...

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.

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

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic...

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura