The present disclosure concerns a method for producing peptides such as glutathione and a microorganism that can be used for such method. One or more embodiments of the first aspect of the present disclosure concern a method for producing peptides such as glutathione comprising culturing a prokaryotic microbial strain in which the expression levels of one or more genes selected from among the gshA gene, the gshB gene, and the gshF gene are enhanced, compared with the expression levels thereof in the wild-type strain thereof in a medium in which the total concentration of cysteine and cystine is 0.5 g/l or lower. The second aspect of the present disclosure concerns a microorganism comprising disruptions of the -glutamyltransferase gene and the glutathione reductase gene and exhibiting the enhanced expression levels of the gshA gene and the gshB or gshF gene.