Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

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. This part is...

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

After the plans of a group of college students to cheat on their final exams goes awry, they're left to reassess their lives and educations and get...

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

A private detective chases a female pickpocket into a film studio and dashes through the sets. With special appearances by a star-studded cast.

Japanese silent film directed by Yasujirô Shimazu, originally released as a two-part movie on December 11, 1931.

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

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan

Japanese silent film from 1931.

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...

Young, timid bowmaster Kazuma seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious figure who, it is rumoured, drove the previous...

Japanese silent film from 1929.

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by...

Lost film. Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journalist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her...

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

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

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