Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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

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

Japanese film.

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

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,...

Japanese drama film.

A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.

Nobuko Otowa plays 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...

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

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

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

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

Film by Buichi Saitô

Comedy of a phony doctor.

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...

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...

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