Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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 Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her...

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,...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

1961 Japanese movie

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

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a...

A drifting gambler named Tamegorō befriends a weary salesman and helps connect him with a nightclub hostess whose father has just been released...

A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi...

Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelectric plant company house to study in the city....

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...