Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr. Matsukuma, although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and...

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...

Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move out of her apartment. As she nears rock bottom,...

Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fukuzo and Kato were comrades during the war. One...

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

Japanese film.

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

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...

Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic...

Kazuo Hasegawa's debut at Daiei.

Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown of Yuko, a classmate for whom he has feelings....

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

In Yamada Village, which is suffering from a serious shortage of wives due to the wave of depopulation, four young men from the village decide to go...

A drifting gambler named Tamegorō befriends a weary salesman and helps connect him with a nightclub hostess whose father has just been released...

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.

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...