Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her...

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

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

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

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...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

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

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...

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

1962 Japanese movie

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

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

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

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)