Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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...

1962 Japanese movie

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

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 tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)

Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

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...

1962 Japanese movie

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

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.

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...

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...

1961 Japanese movie

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

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

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