Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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

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...

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya...

Comedy of a phony doctor.

When dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada is dispatched to uncover the “truth”.

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

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...

Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case...

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

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

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional...

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...

A girl suffering from an incurable disease get in a coma, while her boyfriend visit her to the hospital, she visits the beyond.

Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation...

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.