Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

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

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...

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

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

Comedy of a phony doctor.

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional...

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

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

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...

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

Otowa is 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 begins with...

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

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

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and...

Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete...

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.