Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Film by Buichi Saitô

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

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

1962 Japanese movie

Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second feature film directed by Kamei Fumio, who is...

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 fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.

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

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in...

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...

Rumiko Arai, a 20-year-old girl working in a sawmill, meets a driver, Sekiguchi, and they begin a relationship with the promise of marriage. But...

The dramatized tale of the 1935 creation of Japan's first superhero, the "Golden Bat", alongside the changes during and after the Second World War,...

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...

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

Japanese drama film.

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

Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that are thrust upon him. One involves a a painting...