Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

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

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

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...

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...

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...

Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous...

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

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

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.

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...

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

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation...

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.

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

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...

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