Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

  • 1956
    How Sorrowful

    How Sorrowful

    How Sorrowful

    01956HD

    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...

    How Sorrowful
  • 1962
    Ashita au hito

    Ashita au hito

    Ashita au hito

    01962HD

    1962 Japanese movie

    Ashita au hito
  • 1956
    Saigo no sentō-ki

    Saigo no sentō-ki

    Saigo no sentō-ki

    01956HD

    The first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the end of the Pacific War, with thrill and speed

    Saigo no sentō-ki
  • 1964
    A Story from Echigo

    A Story from Echigo

    A Story from Echigo

    7.21964HD

    A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home...

    A Story from Echigo
  • 1974
    Kobayashi Takiji

    Kobayashi Takiji

    Kobayashi Takiji

    01974HD

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

    Kobayashi Takiji
  • 1951
    男の哀愁

    男の哀愁

    男の哀愁

    01951HD

    男の哀愁
  • 1953
    Before Dawn

    Before Dawn

    Before Dawn

    01953HD

    Before Dawn
  • 1971
    Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion

    Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion

    Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion

    01971HD

    Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

    Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
  • 1952
    Become a Mother, Become a Woman

    Become a Mother, Become a Woman

    Become a Mother, Become a Woman

    01952HD

    Become a Mother, Become a Woman
  • 1962
    Nippon no obaachan

    Nippon no obaachan

    Nippon no obaachan

    01962HD

    Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

    Nippon no obaachan
  • 1962
    Asu no hanayome

    Asu no hanayome

    Asu no hanayome

    01962HD

    1962 Japanese movie

    Asu no hanayome
  • 1970
    Pure Land, Poisoned Sea

    Pure Land, Poisoned Sea

    Pure Land, Poisoned Sea

    01970HD

    In this program based on the book of the same name by Ishimure Michiko, Kitabayashi Tanie plays “Goze,” a blind wandering performer who...

    Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
  • 1954
    The Valley Between Love and Death

    The Valley Between Love and Death

    The Valley Between Love and Death

    01954HD

    A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

    The Valley Between Love and Death
  • 1977
    The Wild Daisy

    The Wild Daisy

    The Wild Daisy

    01977HD

    Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections...

    The Wild Daisy
  • 1961
    Enraptured

    Enraptured

    Enraptured

    01961HD

    A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a...

    Enraptured
  • 1961
    Shokei zen'ya

    Shokei zen'ya

    Shokei zen'ya

    01961HD

    1961 Japanese movie

    Shokei zen'ya
  • 1961
    Blind Devotion

    Blind Devotion

    Blind Devotion

    01961HD

    Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

    Blind Devotion
  • 1970
    River Without a Bridge Part 2

    River Without a Bridge Part 2

    River Without a Bridge Part 2

    01970HD

    Second part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)

    River Without a Bridge Part 2
  • 1959
    Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

    Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

    Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

    5.71959HD

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

    Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
  • 1972
    Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte

    Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte

    Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte

    01972HD

    Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte