Movies: Tanie Kitabayashi

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 her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune....

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story....

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

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

Japanese drama film....

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her family. She grows close to their youngest son Katsumi, experiencing things that will change her view on ...

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 take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all...

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Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke....

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

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her pi...

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

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

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent peo...

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Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete lack of consideration under polite and superficially perfect manners....

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed suicide. There was nothing in his life anymore that he could look forward to. Sochiro was ready to put an...

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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 and Noriko with a gun stands near him. Tanase calls one of the guest's name and dies....

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness....