Tanie Kitabayashi Movies

In a small town, Tomoko, a new bus conductor, works hard to prove herself. She crosses paths with Saburō, the company president’s playful...

1962 Japanese movie

Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelectric plant company house to study in the city....

Film by Buichi Saitô

Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move out of her apartment. As she nears rock bottom,...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

Second part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.

In this program based on the book of the same name by Ishimure Michiko, Kitabayashi Tanie plays “Goze,” a blind wandering performer who...