Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

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

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...

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

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...

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...

Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is...

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case involving the disappearance of...

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

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation...

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...

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

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...

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

An innocent bus girl who gave up on getting into a women’s college and is now filled with new hope and the cheerful, slightly flirtatious young...

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...