Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over...

Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes...

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

Early Japanese silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.

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 film from 1925.

Based on the Nobu Koito story

Lost Japanese silent film from 1931.

Japanese film from 1934, based on a novel by Itsuma Maki (real name Kaitarō Hasegawa).

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Japanese silent film (jidaigeki) from 1926.

Silent jidaigeki released on New Year's Eve, 1926.

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

Japanese silent film from 1931.

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

Sakura Ondo was a sound adaptation based on a popular 1934 song, produced at the Shochiku Kamata Studio as part of a five-studio competition to...

Japanese silent film from 1927, based on a popular serialized novel by Kan Kikuchi.

A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka...

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...

Hirano's wife Yasuko had grown weary of her life of poverty. Her feelings of dissatisfaction deepened when she met her elegantly dressed friend...