Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Comedy of a phony doctor.

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

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

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

1962 Japanese movie

Based on Haruko Ōta's memoir.

The dramatized tale of the 1935 creation of Japan's first superhero, the "Golden Bat", alongside the changes during and after the Second World War,...

Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that are thrust upon him. One involves a a painting...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Chieko Izumi is a reporter for the magazine "Weekly Japanese Women". She had come to Tokyo to stay with her aunt in order to escape her stubborn...