Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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

Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for...

Comedy of a phony doctor.

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

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...

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...

Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an...

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

Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move out of her apartment. As she nears rock bottom,...

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

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.

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights...

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...

Japanese film.

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 story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

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

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