Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Comedy of a phony doctor.

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

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...

Second part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)

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

Nobuko Otowa plays 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...

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

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.

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

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 university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation...

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