Movies: Kinuyo Tanaka

  • 1972
    Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

    Tora-san's Dream-Come-True (1972)

    Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

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    When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals for the affection of Chiyo....

    Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
  • 1947
    Phoenix

    Phoenix (1947)

    Phoenix

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    A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband....

    Phoenix
  • 1962
    Mama, I Need You!

    Mama, I Need You! (1962)

    Mama, I Need You!

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    After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a job in a small laundry in downtown Tokyo and works hard till late at night. At a nearby restaurant a...

    Mama, I Need You!
  • 1949
    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 (1949)

    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

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    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 devoted to her husband....

    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
  • 2022
    Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About

    Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About (2022)

    Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About

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    This documentary composed of numerous testimonies and archives, filmed in Japan highlights the extraordinary career of the actress-director Kinuyo Tanaka and her singular ambition to impose a female point of view on cinema, reflecting her own vision ...

    Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About
  • 1954
    Five Sisters

    Five Sisters (1954)

    Five Sisters

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    The story of five sisters....

    Five Sisters
  • 1947
    Marriage

    Marriage (1947)

    Marriage

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    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....

    Marriage
  • 1962
    A Wanderer's Notebook

    A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)

    A Wanderer's Notebook

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    Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughte...

    A Wanderer's Notebook
  • 1936
    Men vs. Women

    Men vs. Women (1936)

    Men vs. Women

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    A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era....

    Men vs. Women
  • 1962
    Love Under the Crucifix

    Love Under the Crucifix (1962)

    Love Under the Crucifix

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    The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a feudal prince, also a Christian who is already married, and that creates problems. Further, when th...

    Love Under the Crucifix
  • 1955
    Tsukiyo no kasa

    Tsukiyo no kasa (1955)

    Tsukiyo no kasa

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    Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two people come together, they will talk about selling kimonos, if three people come together, they will ...

    Tsukiyo no kasa
  • 1953
    Sincere Heart

    Sincere Heart (1953)

    Sincere Heart

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    A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar....

    Sincere Heart
  • 1937
    Lady Doctor Kinuyo

    Lady Doctor Kinuyo (1937)

    Lady Doctor Kinuyo

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    Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is ancestral. Although Kinuyo and Yasuo love each other, they have different thoughts toward treatments...

    Lady Doctor Kinuyo
  • 1952
    The Ataka Family

    The Ataka Family (1952)

    The Ataka Family

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    Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to her husband and together the couple runs the family farm. Their happy family life comes to an abrupt ...

    The Ataka Family
  • 1940
    Kinuyo's First Love

    Kinuyo's First Love (1940)

    Kinuyo's First Love

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    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 relationships in a town of customs and manners....

    Kinuyo's First Love
  • 1945
    Victory Song

    Victory Song (1945)

    Victory Song

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    Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors....

    Victory Song
  • 1974
    Sanbaba

    Sanbaba (1974)

    Sanbaba

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    A story about being scared of getting old....

    Sanbaba
  • 1957
    Yellow Crow

    Yellow Crow (1957)

    Yellow Crow

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    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 been estranged from his son for many years, pays no attention to the boy, often punishes him unfairly, a...

    Yellow Crow
  • 1938
    Mother and Child

    Mother and Child (1938)

    Mother and Child

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    The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mother's loneliness, while also having an affair with her father's subordinate....

    Mother and Child
  • 1949
    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 (1949)

    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

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    Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke....

    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2