Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

Tetsuo Nomoto, a young college graduate tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the...

That Night's Woman

This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things...

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

1939 Japanese movie

Japanese silent film from 1925.

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

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.

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

Japanese jidaigeki from 1927. The titular character's nickname may suggest agility, stealth, or other outstanding skills.

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a...

Japanese silent film from 1929.

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...

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

Japanese silent film from 1927.

The first of five Musashi series, Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with the famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them swordsmanship to...