Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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...

A five year old boy leaves his mother and grandparents to see his father who has gone to work in Osaka.

After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.

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

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is...

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...

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...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

1962 Japanese movie

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

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....

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

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

1962 Japanese movie

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.