Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

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...

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

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.

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...

Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.

Japanese film from 1934, based on a novel by Itsuma Maki (real name Kaitarō Hasegawa).

Compilation of film footage documenting Japanese film star Kinuyo Tanaka's goodwill tour of the U.S. in 1949.

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

Japanese film from 1934, based on a novel by Itsuma Maki (real name Kaitarō Hasegawa).

First chapter of Tasujiro Shimazu's ABC Lifeline, released two months before ABC Lifeline: Part 1 and ABC Lifeline: Part 2.

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble...

A period drama about samurai who survived a loss in battle. An early jidaegeki by Hiroshi Shimizu.

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

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...

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan

Early Japanese silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.

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

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...