Kinuyo Tanaka

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 ...

A young woman who has been evacuated to Hokkaido with her family during wartime receives a marriage proposal from the son of the village head, ...

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 ...

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8. Release: ...

Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them ...

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his ...

Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a ...

Italy is usually cited as the anchor of the neo-realist movement in cinema, but Mikio Naruse’s Ginza Cosmetics (1951) is a reminder that ...

Reikichi Kawamura is an executive at his father’s security firm; he knows he has responsibilities, but he’s not terribly enamored of ...

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband’s illness. Release: Wedding Ring 1950 720p General: mkv | 1.97 ...

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. A world of passion swirls ...

In this second part to The Yotsuda Phantom, Iemon’s apparent success is minimized by his own feelings of guilt, the quickly mounting ...

Iemon Tamiya is an impovershed masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is ...

In medieval Japan a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up ...

In the civil wars of 16th century Japan, two ambitious peasants in Nakanogo want to make their fortunes. The potter Genjuro intends to sell his ...

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used ...

Okaasan is the story of a poor, working class mother with a sick husband who sacrifices herself to support her family in suburban Tokyo. The film ...

In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho — a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life ...

“The Dancing Girl of Izu” tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling ...