Movies: Tanie Kitabayashi

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes....

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 Rumiko's grandmother tells her that they are both cursed by an ancient evil....

After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union....

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He...

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk....

The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer....

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 poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in J...

The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people....

Comedy of a phony doctor....

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako...

In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl, Hatsue. Hatsue grows up beautifully and falls in love w...

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 with a female teacher. It turns out that Nanjo and Shimizu have fallen in love....

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A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families....

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

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

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

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 grandmother, Tom, who is in her sixties, her mother, Kura, and older sister, Saki, all women. Toma, despite her...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya....