Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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...

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

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

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'...

Rumiko Arai, a 20-year-old girl working in a sawmill, meets a driver, Sekiguchi, and they begin a relationship with the promise of marriage. But...

Second part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)

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

Nobuko Otowa plays 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...

After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.

Film by Buichi Saitô

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

The dramatized tale of the 1935 creation of Japan's first superhero, the "Golden Bat", alongside the changes during and after the Second World War,...

Japanese drama film.

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...

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

Based on Haruko Ōta's memoir.

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a...

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....

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.