Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

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

A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement,...

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...

Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry...

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

Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

1961 Japanese movie

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

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...

In this program based on the book of the same name by Ishimure Michiko, Kitabayashi Tanie plays “Goze,” a blind wandering performer who...

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...

Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections...

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