Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

Japanese war movie.

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

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

A story about being scared of getting old.

That Night's Woman

Followup film to Osaka Elegy - Osaka Woman

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan

Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu.

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...

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

Weed with Flowers

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

The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble...