Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained...

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the...

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

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

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

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

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

1961 Japanese movie

A young engineer and a pure-hearted mountain girl take on the challenges of the Akan primeval forest, where lawlessness and violence run rampant.

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...

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

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