Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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

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

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...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

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

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

In a small town, Tomoko, a new bus conductor, works hard to prove herself. She crosses paths with Saburō, the company president’s playful...

A drifting gambler named Tamegorō befriends a weary salesman and helps connect him with a nightclub hostess whose father has just been released...

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fukuzo and Kato were comrades during the war. One...

Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous...

After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.

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...

Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for...

Based on Haruko Ōta's memoir.

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

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.

Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move out of her apartment. As she nears rock bottom,...