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Kinuyo Tanaka (田中 絹代 Tanaka Kinuyo, 29 November 1909 – 21 March 1977) was a Japanese actress and director.
Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Yasujirō Ozu's I Graduated, But... in 1929. The following year she played the lead in Aiyoku no ki, and in 1931 she appeared in Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, directed by Heinosuke Gosho.
She had a close working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi, having parts in 15 of his films, including leading roles in The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953) and Sansho the Bailiff (1954). Their working relationship ended when Mizoguchi countered a recommendation from the Directors Guild of Japan for the Nikkatsu studio to hire her as a director. Despite this, the production of her second film as director went ahead, but Tanaka never forgave Mizoguchi, and the reasons for his behaviour are unclear. She also played Noboru Yasumoto's mother in Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard (1965). For her portrayal in Kei Kumai's Sandakan N° 8 she won the Best Actress Award at the 25th Berlin International Film Festival in 1975. Her last screen appearance was in 1976 in Kei Kumai's Kita No Misaki.
Tanaka was the second Japanese woman who worked as a film director, after Sakane Tazuko (1904‐1975). Her first directing job was on the film Love Letter in 1953, and she made five further films in that role.
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29 October 1942
Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs.
13 April 1939
Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her cronies, organizing music concerts and so on.
17 April 1952
A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
30 December 1951
Gensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was hesitant to get married because he had to feed his father and younger brother.
01 May 1941
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 “waiter” literally.
16 December 1936
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard.
29 April 1937
Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog.
02 February 1933
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl.
01 June 1974
A story about being scared of getting old.
25 June 1926
1926 jidaigeki (period drama) directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.
01 December 1932
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 feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier.
24 August 1937
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 to conduct an excavation.
01 July 1950
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
14 January 1937
Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.
28 October 1958
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.
07 March 1930
A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of the local squire, who introduces the lad to her pilot brother and his flying officer friends; through hard work, and despite the handicap of a lowly class status, he eventually succeeds in qualifying as a pilot and joining the air force.
15 June 1935
A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant.
10 November 1930
Record of Love and Desire a.k.a. Desire of Night (愛慾の記[b], Aiyoku no ki; lit. "Memories of Love and Desire") is a 1930 Japanese silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho, starring Kinuyo Tanaka and Ichirō Yuki.
30 January 1926
Early Japanese silent film by Hiroshi Shimizu.
24 October 1956
A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
06 September 1929
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 fact that he has no job.
09 February 1933
Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.
01 December 1925
Early silent film from Hiroshi Shimizu.
01 March 1928
A young man torn between love and friendship.
01 May 1926
Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.
01 December 1925
A period drama about samurai who survived a loss in battle. An early jidaegeki by Hiroshi Shimizu.
13 July 1933
Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.
04 April 1961
A Hiromichi Horikawa movie
10 November 1928
Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.
05 January 1929
A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons.
14 September 1934
The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble paying his bills, is the girl Saya who becomes the model for his novel.
07 December 1933
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
14 January 1933
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 early Japanese sound cinema and the social milieux that Shochiku tended to depict.
05 March 1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
11 December 1947
A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.
18 March 1947
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.
26 December 1963
On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English.
27 January 1928
Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.
12 December 1930
Lost film. Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journalist, 'young miss'.
21 June 1955
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 the owner of "Fujimura" in the town of Hato.
15 July 1941
Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes marriage but whose mother harbours ill feeling towards her because of an incident in the mountains where a child got into difficulties.
31 March 1954
In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushio and Anju, are sold into brutal servitude under the cruel bailiff Sansho.
15 May 1952
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart.
05 May 1939
1939 Japanese movie
26 March 1953
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare.
23 June 1926
Japanese silent film from 1926, directed by Heinosuke Gosho and featuring Kinuyo Tanaka.
30 August 1926
A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business.
27 October 1963
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat.
22 February 1934
A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The Romance of Yushima.
01 November 1960
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
02 November 1974
A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No.
12 July 1975
Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling her Hokkaido property, is apparently flush with cash but newly homeless.
01 November 1937
short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.
14 January 1932
Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealthy banker’s son.
24 May 1964
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
12 June 1976
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies.
