Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a...

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...

Shuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include Tanase and his wife Noriko. Next day, Tanase is shot...

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

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

Second part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)

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...

Comedy of a phony doctor.

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...

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 tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.

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

1962 Japanese movie

A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.