Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

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

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

The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases,...

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...

Shuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include Tanase and his wife Noriko. Next day, Tanase is shot...

Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry...

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

Japanese film.

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.

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

Japanese film.

On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large...