Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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...

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

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.

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

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...

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

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

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

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

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

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.

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...

In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover...

Fifth film in the "Inu" series.

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

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...

Comedy of a phony doctor.