Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata...

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange...

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 man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.

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...

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...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is...

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry...

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....

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

Comedy of a phony doctor.

Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic...

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

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