Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

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

A group of female doctors travel to a remote village during their summer holiday to offer free medical care to villagers. There they must battle...

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

short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

Weed with Flowers

Lost film. Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journalist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her...

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 story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

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

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

Japanese silent film from 1931.

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...

The logger Yamato has been raising his daughter alone since his wife died in childbirth. The baron who owns the forests where he works convinces him...

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

It is considered to be a lost film.

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 1931.

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

A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over...