Tanie Kitabayashi — Actor (42)
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Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
紙芝居昭和史 黄金バットがやって来る
director: Katsumune Ishida actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Kazuko Ichikawa …
other title: 紙芝居昭和史 黄金バットがやって来る
The dramatized tale of the 1935 creation of Japan's first superhero, the "Golden Bat", alongside the changes during and after the Second World War, not just to the hero himself, but the art of "kamishibai" picture stories that he originated from.
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Nippon no obaachan (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
喜劇 にっぽんのお婆あちゃん
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Chōchō Miyako / Tanie Kitabayashi …
other title: 喜劇 にっぽんのお婆あちゃん
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 escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.
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Heat Wave Island (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
かげろう
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Jūzō Itami …
other title: かげろう
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 begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitution, and murder in which many poor farmers had found themselves trapped after World War II.
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The Street Without Sun (1954) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
太陽のない街
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Sumiko Hidaka / Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi …
other title: 太陽のない街 / Taiyō no nai Machi …
Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers' steadfastness, which neither hunger nor violence could break. The heroine of this story actively participates in her colleagues' struggle against layoffs, oppression, and police brutality.
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Only on Mondays (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
月曜日のユカ
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Mariko Kaga / Tanie Kitabayashi …
other title: Les Lundis de Yuka / 月曜日のユカ
Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettling character for a changing but still patriarchal society.
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A Japanese Tragedy (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
日本の悲劇
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Yūko Mochizuki / Keiji Sada …
other title: Una tragedia giapponese / La Tragédie du Japon …
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
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Ghost Story of Youth (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
青春怪談
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Izumi Ashikawa / Mie Kitahara …
other title: 青春怪談
A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist and childhood friend. A woman named Tomi Funakoshi appears in front of the two, who are thinking of getting married someday.
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The Heart (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
こころ
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Masayuki Mori / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: Il cuore / Le Pauvre cœur des hommes …
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.
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The Burmese Harp (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
ビルマの竪琴
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Koji Ishizaka / Kiichi Nakai …
other title: ビルマの竪琴
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 lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
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Our Town (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
わが町
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Ryūtarō Tatsumi / Yōko Minamida …
other title: わが町
In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl, Hatsue. Hatsue grows up beautifully and falls in love with Shintaro. But Takichi objects to their relationship...
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My Second Brother (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
にあんちゃん
director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Hiroyuki Nagato / Kayo Matsuo …
other title: Il diario di Sueko - Il secondo fratello / O Meu Segundo Irmão …
The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) girl, it was one of the first films to deal with the subject of zainichi identity and struggles in Japan.
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Tale of Japanese Burglars (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
にっぽん泥棒物語
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Yūnosuke Itō …
other title: Les Contes du voleur japonais / にっぽん泥棒物語
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 communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.
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Wrath of Daimajin (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
大魔神逆襲
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Hideki Ninomiya / Chikara Hashimoto …
other title: Daimajin - Frankensteins Monster nimmt Rache / Le Combat Final de Majin …
In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur pits. A band of young boys decide to rescue their enslaved fathers on their own.