Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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...

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

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...

Shuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include Tanase and his wife Noriko. Next day, Tanase is shot...

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...

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.

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...

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...

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 great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

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.

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

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.