Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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.

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

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

Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that are thrust upon him. One involves a a painting...

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

Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation...

Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case involving the disappearance of...

The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.

A drifting gambler named Tamegorō befriends a weary salesman and helps connect him with a nightclub hostess whose father has just been released...

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.

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...

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

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...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

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

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...