Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Japanese drama film.

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

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

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and...

A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement,...

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...

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

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 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...

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