Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

In Yamada Village, which is suffering from a serious shortage of wives due to the wave of depopulation, four young men from the village decide to go...

Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr. Matsukuma, although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and...

Japanese film.

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

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...

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

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

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)

Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fukuzo and Kato were comrades during the war. One...

1962 Japanese movie

A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi...

Kazuo Hasegawa's debut at Daiei.

A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement,...

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.