Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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...

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

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

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...

Based on Haruko Ōta's memoir.

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

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...

A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.

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

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...

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

Japanese drama film.

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and...

1962 Japanese movie

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

Kazuo Hasegawa's debut at Daiei.