Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be...

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

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

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting...

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 story of five sisters.

Short Japanese silent comedy from 1926. Directed by "Kamata Nonkinosuke," a probable pseudonym for a junior director (literally "Carefree Man from...

Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them to avenge their father's death. The perpetrators of...

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...

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

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

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...

Japanese silent film from 1927.

Japanese war movie.

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

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

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.