Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

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

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

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.

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father

Comedy of a phony doctor.

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

Japanese film.

A comedy featuring The Golden Bat

Japanese film.

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

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

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is...

1962 Japanese movie