Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

A drama centered on women, adapted from the novel of the same name by Ineko Sata.

AKA Family of Women. A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old...

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...

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya...

Fifth film in the "Inu" series.

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

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

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...

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

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...

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

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

Japanese film.

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.

Based on Haruko Ōta's memoir.

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.