Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...

A drama centered on women, adapted from the novel of the same name by Ineko Sata.

Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film...

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

Hatsuko, a nurse who was put in charge of Room Zero in the pediatric ward, couldn't believe her eyes when she entered the room. There she found a boy...

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 young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the...

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is...

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

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

AKA Family of Women. A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old...

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

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

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

Based on Haruko Ōta's memoir.

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...

In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors...

The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.