Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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

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

1961 Japanese movie

Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

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 story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Japanese film.

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

1962 Japanese movie

In a small town, Tomoko, a new bus conductor, works hard to prove herself. She crosses paths with Saburō, the company president’s playful...

Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown of Yuko, a classmate for whom he has feelings....

Japanese film.

In Yamada Village, which is suffering from a serious shortage of wives due to the wave of depopulation, four young men from the village decide to go...

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is...