Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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

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

Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous...

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

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

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

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...

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

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights...

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers'...

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.

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

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...

1961 Japanese movie