Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...

Japanese silent film from 1930.

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

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...

Japanese silent film (jidaigeki) from 1926.

Japanese silent film from 1932.

Japanese silent film from 1931.

Japanese contemporary drama from 1927.

Japanese silent film from 1927.

Japanese film from 1932.

Silent jidaigeki (Japanese samurai film) from 1927.

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

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

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealthy banker’s son....

1926 silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.

Japanese silent film from 1927. A landmark in the careers of two up-and-coming stars: director Heinosuke Gosho and, newly promoted to a starring...