Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown of Yuko, a classmate for whom he has feelings....

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

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.

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...

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...

1962 Japanese movie

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...

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...

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

A young engineer and a pure-hearted mountain girl take on the challenges of the Akan primeval forest, where lawlessness and violence run rampant.

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

Fifth film in the "Inu" series.

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...

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

A drama centered on women, adapted from the novel of the same name by Ineko Sata.

A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.

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.

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...