Kinuyo Tanaka (田中 絹代 Tanaka Kinuyo, 29 November 1909 – 21 March 1977) was a Japanese actress and director.
Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Yasujirō Ozu's I Graduated, But... in 1929. The following year she played the lead in Aiyoku no ki, and in 1931 she appeared in Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, directed by Heinosuke Gosho.
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Cape of the North
As Old Nun
Sansho the Bailiff
As Tamaki
Sandakan No. 8
As Old Osaki
Equinox Flower
As Kiyoko Hirayama
Kaisen no Zenya
Mother
As Masako Fukuhara
The Life of Oharu
As Oharu
The Love of the Actress Sumako
As Sumako Matsui
Miss Oyu
As Oyû Kayukawa
The Woman in the Rumor
As Hatsuko Mabuchi
Flowing
As Rika Yamanaka / Oharu
Kono sora no aru kagiri
The Munekata Sisters
As Setsuko Munekata
Zoku aizen katsura
Alone Across the Pacific
As Youth's Mother
Women of the Night
As Fusako Owada
Miyamoto Musashi
As Shinobu Nonomiya
Utamaro and His Five Women
As Okita
Her Brother
As Mother
Flame of My Love
As Eiko Hirayama
Woman of Tokyo
As Harue
Phoenix
As Sayoko Aihara
Bright Sea
As Nobuko Yazaki
Ornamental Hairpin
As Emi
Sincere Heart
As Kuniko
The Village Bride
Riku no ôja
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
As Okinu
Karabotan
The Life of Workers in the Big City
The Ballad of Narayama
As Orin
A Wanderer's Notebook
As Kishi, Fumiko's mother
The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
As Wife of the playwright
The Dancing Girl of Izu
As Kaoru, a dancer
A Legend, or Was It?
As Shizuko Sonobe
Burden of Life
As Itsuko Kuriyama
Army
As Waka
Youth, Why Do You Cry?
The Three Treasures
As Princess Yamato
The Eternal Rainbow
As Fumi
Banchō sarayashiki
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
Wedding Ring
As Noriko Kuki
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
As Oiwa / Osode
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
As Oiwa / Osode
A Man's Recompense: Part 1
A Man's Recompense: Part 2
Flower
A Certain Woman
The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka
As Self (archive footage)
Forever a Woman
As Neighbor's Wife
The Moon Has Risen
As Yoneya
Record of a Woman Doctor
Okoto and Sasuke
As Okoto
An Heir's Place
As Hisa Hosho
Victory of Women
As Hiroko Hosokawa
Five Sisters
Yellow Crow
As Yukiko Matsumoto
I Graduated, But...
As Machiko Nomoto
The Scent of Incense
As Tsuna
ABC Lifeline
The New Road: Akemi
Wakarete ikiru toki mo
As Michi's Mother
Hahakogusa
As Shige Ozawa
The Storm
Where Chimneys Are Seen
As Hiroko Ogata
Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About
As self (archive footage)
Marching On
The Man Who Has Returned
I Flunked, But...
As Cafe's waitress
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
As Oshige
Dragnet Girl
As Tokiko
Okayo's Preparedness
As Okayo
Red Beard
As Madame Yasumoto
Mama, I Need You!
(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
As Oshige
Osayo koisugata
As Osayo
The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
As Haruko, bride
Lullaby of the Earth
The Loyal 47 Ronin
As Yae
Ginza Cosmetics
As Yukiko Tsuji
The Inner Palace Conspiracy
As Onaka
The Tree of Love
As Katsue Takaishi
Tsukiyo no kasa
The Lady of Musashino
As Michiko Akiyama
Marriage
As Fumie Matsukawa
Sôbô
Geisha in the Old City
As Oei
Love Letter
As Landlady
How Sorrowful
The Ataka Family
As Kuniko Ataka
The Fencing Master
As Oharu
The Genealogy of Women
As Otsuta
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
As Myokan
The Age of Emotion
Victory Song
As Woman who sings lullaby
My Elder Brother
As Sumako
On This Earth
As Omitsu, Heiichiro's mother
Lady Doctor Kinuyo
As Kinuyo Yamaoka
Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
As Chiyo
Song of the Flower Basket
As Yoko
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Men vs. Women
Sisters of Nishijin
Sanbaba
Stepbrothers
As Rie
An Innocent Maid
As Oshige
Young Lady
As Kinuko
A Hen in the Wind
As Tokiko Amamiya
Women in Prison
As Prison Warden
Ugetsu
As Miyagi
Double Wedding
Sorrow Is Only for Women
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
As the old family mistress
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
As Kiyo
Spring Thunder
Confession
The New Road: Ryota
The Blacksmith of the Forest
As Omitsu
Let's Go in Good Spirits
Let's Go, Grandma!
As Kiku Sasaki
Mother and Child
As Chieko
Kinuyo's First Love
Osaka Woman
Weeds with flowers
Okinu and Banto
That Night's Woman
Story of Lightning
少年死刑囚
Mominoki wa Nokotta
As Tsuta