Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

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

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

Hatsuko, a nurse who was put in charge of Room Zero in the pediatric ward, couldn't believe her eyes when she entered the room. There she found a boy...

A bizarre duel on a snowy night with a woman at stake, a sudden and brazen murder, and a thrilling chase of love and passion.

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is...

1961 Japanese movie

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

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

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

Based on Haruko Ōta's memoir.

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

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

1962 Japanese movie

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

Film by Buichi Saitô