Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.

Short Japanese silent comedy from 1926. Directed by "Kamata Nonkinosuke," a probable pseudonym for a junior director (literally "Carefree Man from...

Based on the Nobu Koito story

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

Japanese film from 1924.

Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two...

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

A period drama about samurai who survived a loss in battle. An early jidaegeki by Hiroshi Shimizu.

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

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

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

Early Japanese silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.

Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.

The story of five sisters.

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Japanese movie from 1934. The final film of director Hôtei Nomura, who died from a stroke suffered at a screening of this film.

Japanese contemporary drama from 1927.

Japanese silent film from 1933.