Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to...

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human...

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a smart young boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to others' needs,...

When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals...

A group of female doctors travel to a remote village during their summer holiday to offer free medical care to villagers. There they must battle...

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

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

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

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...

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

Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling...

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...

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

Japanese contemporary drama from 1927.

Japanese war movie.

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting...

Japanese silent film from 1931.