Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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

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...

Japanese drama film.

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

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...

Japanese film.

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...

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

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

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

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...

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her...

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

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...