Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fukuzo and Kato were comrades during the war. One...

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

Japanese film.

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

In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover...

Japanese film.

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Part 2 of a 2-part romance (first part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is...

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

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

A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)

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...

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...

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

A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement,...

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.