Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a...

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors...

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

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

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

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...

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

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

Rumiko Arai, a 20-year-old girl working in a sawmill, meets a driver, Sekiguchi, and they begin a relationship with the promise of marriage. But...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

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

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.