Movies: Kinuyo Tanaka

  • 1965
    Red Beard

    Red Beard (1965)

    Red Beard

    8.11965HD

    Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Re...

    Red Beard
  • 1952
    The Life of Oharu

    The Life of Oharu (1952)

    The Life of Oharu

    7.81952HD

    In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall....

    The Life of Oharu
  • 1958
    Equinox Flower

    Equinox Flower (1958)

    Equinox Flower

    7.41958HD

    Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female rel...

    Equinox Flower
  • 1954
    Sansho the Bailiff

    Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

    Sansho the Bailiff

    8.11954HD

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

    Sansho the Bailiff
  • 1953
    Ugetsu

    Ugetsu (1953)

    Ugetsu

    81953HD

    In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysteriou...

    Ugetsu
  • 1958
    The Ballad of Narayama

    The Ballad of Narayama (1958)

    The Ballad of Narayama

    7.51958HD

    In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approa...

    The Ballad of Narayama
  • 1951
    Miss Oyu

    Miss Oyu (1951)

    Miss Oyu

    7.21951HD

    Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and ...

    Miss Oyu
  • 1948
    A Hen in the Wind

    A Hen in the Wind (1948)

    A Hen in the Wind

    7.01948HD

    Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband returns from ...

    A Hen in the Wind
  • 1954
    The Woman in the Rumor

    The Woman in the Rumor (1954)

    The Woman in the Rumor

    7.41954HD

    Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows interest and starts to woo her....

    The Woman in the Rumor
  • 1946
    Utamaro and His Five Women

    Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)

    Utamaro and His Five Women

    7.11946HD

    Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him, as the women in his life vie for lovers. And, occasionally, his art gets him into trouble....

    Utamaro and His Five Women
  • 1933
    Woman of Tokyo

    Woman of Tokyo (1933)

    Woman of Tokyo

    6.81933HD

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

    Woman of Tokyo
  • 1956
    Flowing

    Flowing (1956)

    Flowing

    7.11956HD

    Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of ge...

    Flowing
  • 1948
    Women of the Night

    Women of the Night (1948)

    Women of the Night

    7.21948HD

    In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons....

    Women of the Night
  • 1950
    The Munekata Sisters

    The Munekata Sisters (1950)

    The Munekata Sisters

    6.91950HD

    Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko tries to reu...

    The Munekata Sisters
  • 1953
    Love Letter

    Love Letter (1953)

    Love Letter

    6.81953HD

    A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people....

    Love Letter
  • 1955
    The Moon Has Risen

    The Moon Has Risen (1955)

    The Moon Has Risen

    6.81955HD

    Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships....

    The Moon Has Risen
  • 1932
    Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?

    Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932)

    Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?

    6.41932HD

    When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs....

    Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
  • 1955
    Forever a Woman

    Forever a Woman (1955)

    Forever a Woman

    7.51955HD

    Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In the last stage of...

    Forever a Woman
  • 1929
    I Graduated, But...

    I Graduated, But... (1929)

    I Graduated, But...

    5.71929HD

    Tetsuo Nomoto, a young graduated student tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the fact that he has no job. Hardships come quickly, which forces Machiko to find a job in a bar....

    I Graduated, But...
  • 1933
    Dragnet Girl

    Dragnet Girl (1933)

    Dragnet Girl

    6.81933HD

    A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him....

    Dragnet Girl