Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.

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...

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

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.

Weed with Flowers

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the...

That Night's Woman

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...

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