Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

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...

Japanese war movie.

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

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...

Gensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was hesitant to get married because he had to feed his...

A story about being scared of getting old.

"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...

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

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...

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

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

A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka...

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...

Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu.

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

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...

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