Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors...

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...

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

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...

Japanese drama film.

Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelectric plant company house to study in the city....

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

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

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...

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...

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is...

1961 Japanese movie

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

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

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

AKA Family of Women. A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old...

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

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a...