Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Shirō Kuroki, the adopted son of the Yamada family, shares a deep and mutual love with his foster sister, Kinuko Yamada. His commitment to...

It is considered to be a lost film.

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

1939 Japanese movie

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

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...

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

Hirano's wife Yasuko had grown weary of her life of poverty. Her feelings of dissatisfaction deepened when she met her elegantly dressed friend...

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...

Japanese silent film from 1928, co-starring Chojiro Hayashi and up-and-coming actress Kinuyo Tanaka.

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...

That Night's Woman

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

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...

The logger Yamato has been raising his daughter alone since his wife died in childbirth. The baron who owns the forests where he works convinces him...

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