Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu.

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the...

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...

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...

Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.

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

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

A young man torn between love and friendship.

That Night's Woman

The first of five Musashi series, Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with the famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them swordsmanship to...

A group of female doctors travel to a remote village during their summer holiday to offer free medical care to villagers. There they must battle...

This documentary composed of numerous testimonies and archives, filmed in Japan highlights the extraordinary career of the actress-director Kinuyo...