Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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...

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

Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with...

Japanese drama film.

Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and...

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

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

A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...

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

A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi...

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

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...

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

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

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...

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