Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that are thrust upon him. One involves a a painting...

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

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

Brothers Koji and Seitaro Hatana, belong to the "outcast" caste. Despite their personal qualities—intelligence and fairness—they...

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

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

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

Rumiko Arai, a 20-year-old girl working in a sawmill, meets a driver, Sekiguchi, and they begin a relationship with the promise of marriage. But...

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

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

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...

Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous...

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.

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

The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.

Film by Buichi Saitô