Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

A comedy featuring The Golden Bat

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

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

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata...

The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases,...

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...

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

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

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

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.

1962 Japanese movie

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father

The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.

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...

A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.

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...

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...

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