Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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 three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

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

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 film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.

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...

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...

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

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...

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

1961 Japanese movie

Kazuo Hasegawa's debut at Daiei.