Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

Japanese silent film from 1929.

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...

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting...

An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort.

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

1939 Japanese movie

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by...

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

When wealthy Ochika marries desolute Danpei, she devotes herself completely to him and takes over her business, to the point of sowing dissensions...

Japanese war movie.