Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

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

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).

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.

Early Japanese silent film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.

1939 Japanese 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...

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

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...

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

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

Based on the Nobu Koito story

That Night's Woman

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

Shigeko and Midori, star swimmers at the renowned Kirishima Girls’ School, are training relentlessly with their sights set on the Los Angeles...

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...

Silent jidaigeki (Japanese samurai film) from 1927.