Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

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....

Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in...

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

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and...

The first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the end of the Pacific War, with thrill and speed

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

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

Japanese film.

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...

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

Japanese film.

1961 Japanese movie

Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fukuzo and Kato were comrades during the war. One...

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

Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for...

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

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