Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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

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

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...

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...

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

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 detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move out of her apartment. As she nears rock bottom,...

A five year old boy leaves his mother and grandparents to see his father who has gone to work in Osaka.

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation...

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange...

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father

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.

Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is...

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,...

Japanese drama film.