Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights...

Shuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include Tanase and his wife Noriko. Next day, Tanase is shot...

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...

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.

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

Based on Haruko Ōta's memoir.

Nobuko Otowa plays 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...

A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement,...

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

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...

Fifth film in the "Inu" series.

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...

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.

Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous...