Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

A feature-length work based on Kan Kikuchi’s newspaper novel, adapted for the screen by Kōgo Noda. With performances by stars such as...

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and...

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

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...

Japanese silent comedy from 1928.

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

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...

Japanese silent drama from 1927.

LOVE UNDER THE CRUCIFIX centers on the forbidden romance between Ogin (Ineko Arima), daughter of a famous tea master, and Ukon (Tatsuya Nakadai), a...

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

Japanese silent film from 1927.

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...

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

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to...

After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much.

Japanese silent film from 1928.