Tanie Kitabayashi Filmes

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

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...

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

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

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

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

1962 Japanese movie

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...

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

In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors...

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

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

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

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...

Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with...

School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings near the end of WWII.

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...

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.