Kinuyo Tanaka

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband’s return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor ...

A widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines. Release: Army 1944 General: mkv | 1.48 GB | ...

Director Kinoshita Keisuke helmed this Shochiku production between the family chronic “Ôsone-ke no ashita” (Morning for the Osone ...

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her ...

Emi Ota and her friend Okiku stay briefly at a mountain inn and then return to Tokyo. Later, Nanmura, a soldier on leave, steps on an ornamental ...

Takahashi finds a creative way to avoid doing his revision in this roguish comedy reminiscent of Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman. Release: I ...

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced ...

1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura Release: On This Earth 1957 tt0050250 Japanese General: vob | 5705 Kbps | 4.31 GB | 01:15:17 Video: ...

In 1936, Shochiku’s studios moved from Kamata to Ofuna. That year Shimazu Yasujiro, one of the more acclaimed directors under contract at ...

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. In the film all three daughters ...

Tokiko leads a double-life as an office typist and the mistress of a retired champion boxer and small-time ringleader named Jyoji. Hiroshi, a new ...

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko ...

The first of five Musashi series, Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with the famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them swordsmanship ...

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor’s son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but ...

It’s a small, poor village where doctors Masami Morikawa and Kinuyo Tanaka show up, intent on testing the locals for tuberculosis and other ...

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with ...

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease ...

Fusako, a drug dealer’s young mistress in postwar Japan, loses her tenuous grasp on life upon learning about her lover’s affair. ...

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a ...

Kinuyo Tanaka is a student and lieutenant at Kuniko Miyake’s dance studio. He job calls for her to demonstrate dances, play the koto while ...