Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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

Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelectric plant company house to study in the city....

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

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....

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

A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

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

A drifting gambler named Tamegorō befriends a weary salesman and helps connect him with a nightclub hostess whose father has just been released...

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and...

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

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.

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.

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...