Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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

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...

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

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...

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...

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...

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

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

School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings near the end of WWII.

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...

Japanese drama film.

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she 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...

1962 Japanese movie

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 story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father

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...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.