Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...

On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

Japanese film from 1924.

1926 jidaigeki from Japan.

Japanese silent film from 1932.

The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble...

A dramatized chapter in the life of Shimizu Jirocho, a famous yakuza boss, gambler, and folk hero of the 1800s.

Record of Love and Desire a.k.a. Desire of Night (愛慾の記[b], Aiyoku no ki; lit. "Memories of Love and Desire") is a 1930...

Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

That Night's Woman

When wealthy Ochika marries desolute Danpei, she devotes herself completely to him and takes over her business, to the point of sowing dissensions...

Early Japanese silent film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Japanese silent film from 1929.