Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

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...

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...

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

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

Based on Haruko Ōta's memoir.

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

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

Comedy of a phony doctor.

Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in...

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

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

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

Rumiko Arai, a 20-year-old girl working in a sawmill, meets a driver, Sekiguchi, and they begin a relationship with the promise of marriage. But...

1961 Japanese movie

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