Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.

Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes...

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

That Night's Woman

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

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.

1926 silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.

Gensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was hesitant to get married because he had to feed his...

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...

Japanese silent film from 1927.

Early silent film from Hiroshi Shimizu.

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the...

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

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 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...

When wealthy Ochika marries desolute Danpei, she devotes herself completely to him and takes over her business, to the point of sowing dissensions...

Japanese silent film from 1927, based on a popular serialized novel by Kan Kikuchi.

Japanese film from 1925.