Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

Silent jidaigeki released on New Year's Eve, 1926.

Japanese silent film from 1931.

Japanese silent film from 1927.

Sakura Ondo was a sound adaptation based on a popular 1934 song, produced at the Shochiku Kamata Studio as part of a five-studio competition to...

Japanese silent film from 1933.

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

Japanese movie from 1934. The final film of director Hôtei Nomura, who died from a stroke suffered at a screening of this film.

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...

First chapter of Tasujiro Shimazu's ABC Lifeline, released two months before ABC Lifeline: Part 1 and ABC Lifeline: Part 2.

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...

Shigeko and Midori, star swimmers at the renowned Kirishima Girls’ School, are training relentlessly with their sights set on the Los Angeles...

A story about being scared of getting old.

Tetsuo Nomoto, a young college graduate tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the...

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.

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human...

Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has...

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...