Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

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

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

A young student falls for an invalid girl, whom he can only see from afar.

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

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

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

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...

Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Japanese silent film from 1927.

Japanese silent film from 1933.

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

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 movie from 1934. The final film of director Hôtei Nomura, who died from a stroke suffered at a screening of this film.

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

Japanese film from 1934.

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.