Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers'...

1962 Japanese movie

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...

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.

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

Japanese film.

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.

A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)

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

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata...

Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation...

A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi...

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...

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

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