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...

Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealthy banker’s son....

Because of her husband’s suicide, a young widow finds herself suddenly cast into a life of solitude, with only her beloved child in her arms....

Japanese silent film from 1930. The second chapter of "The Big City: Labor" (1929).

This documentary composed of numerous testimonies and archives, filmed in Japan highlights the extraordinary career of the actress-director Kinuyo...

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan

Japanese silent film from 1928.

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...

Tsukamoto and Omitsu are close friends, but one day, Tsukamoto becomes fascinated by Ayako, whom he meets at the home of Miyajima.

Japanese film from 1925.

1926 jidaigeki (period drama) directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Japanese silent film from 1925.

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...

Japanese film from 1924.

Japanese film from 1932, adapted from the novel by Kan Kikuchi. The first sound film from director Yasujiro Shimazu.

Japanese film from 1933, adapted from Masao Kume's serialized newspaper novel.

Japanese silent film from 1930.

Japanese silent film from 1928, co-starring Chojiro Hayashi and up-and-coming actress Kinuyo Tanaka.