Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large...

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

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...

Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with...

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...

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...

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,...

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

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

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

A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.

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

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.

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her...

A comedy featuring The Golden Bat

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the...

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...