Kinuyo Tanaka

Kinuyo Tanaka

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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, dir...

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Cape of the North

As Old Nun

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Sansho the Bailiff

As Tamaki

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Sandakan No. 8

As Old Osaki

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Equinox Flower

As Kiyoko Hirayama

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Kaisen no Zenya

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Mother

As Masako Fukuhara

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The Life of Oharu

As Oharu

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The Woman in the Rumor

As Hatsuko Mabuchi

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The Love of the Actress Sumako

As Sumako Matsui

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Miss Oyu

As Oyû Kayukawa

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Flowing

As Rika Yamanaka / Oharu

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Kono sora no aru kagiri

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The Munekata Sisters

As Setsuko Munekata

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Zoku aizen katsura

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Alone Across the Pacific

As Youth's Mother

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Women of the Night

As Fusako Owada

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Miyamoto Musashi

As Shinobu Nonomiya

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Utamaro and His Five Women

As Okita

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Her Brother

As Mother

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Flame of My Love

As Eiko Hirayama

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Woman of Tokyo

As Harue

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Phoenix

As Sayoko Aihara

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Bright Sea

As Nobuko Yazaki

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Ornamental Hairpin

As Emi

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Sincere Heart

As Kuniko

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The Village Bride

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Riku no ôja

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A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo

As Okinu

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Karabotan

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The Life of Workers in the Big City

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The Ballad of Narayama

As Orin

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A Wanderer's Notebook

As Kishi, Fumiko's mother

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The Neighbour's Wife and Mine

As Wife of the playwright

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The Dancing Girl of Izu

As Kaoru, a dancer

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A Legend, or Was It?

As Shizuko Sonobe

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Burden of Life

As Itsuko Kuriyama

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Army

As Waka

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Youth, Why Do You Cry?

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The Three Treasures

As Princess Yamato

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The Eternal Rainbow

As Fumi

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Banchô sarayashiki

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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

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Wedding Ring

As Noriko Kuki

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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

As Oiwa / Osode

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A Man's Recompense: Part 2

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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

As Oiwa / Osode

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A Man's Recompense: Part 1

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Flower

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A Certain Woman

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The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka

As Self (archive footage)

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Forever a Woman

As Neighbor's wife

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The Moon Has Risen

As Yoneya

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Record of a Woman Doctor

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Okoto and Sasuke

As Okoto

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An Heir's Place

As Hisa Hosho

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Victory of Women

As Hiroko Hosokawa

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Five Sisters

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Yellow Crow

As Yukiko Matsumoto

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I Graduated, But...

As Machiko Nomoto

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The Scent of Incense

As Tsuna

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ABC Lifeline

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The New Road: Akemi

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Wakarete ikiru toki mo

As Michi's Mother

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Hahakogusa

As Shige Ozawa

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The Storm

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Where Chimneys Are Seen

As Hiroko Ogata

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Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About

As self (archive footage)

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The Man Who Has Returned

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Marching On

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I Flunked, But...

As Cafe's waitress

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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?

As Oshige

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Dragnet Girl

As Tokiko

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Okayo's Preparedness

As Okayo

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Red Beard

As Madame Yasumoto

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Mama, I Need You!

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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home

As Oshige

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Osayo koisugata

As Osayo

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The Bride Talks in Her Sleep

As Haruko, bride

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Lullaby of the Earth

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The Loyal 47 Ronin

As Yae

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Ginza Cosmetics

As Yukiko Tsuji

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The Inner Palace Conspiracy

As Onaka

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The Tree of Love

As Katsue Takaishi

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Tsukiyo no kasa

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The Lady of Musashino

As Michiko Akiyama

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Marriage

As Fumie Matsukawa

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Sôbô

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Geisha in the Old City

As Oei

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Love Letter

As Landlady

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How Sorrowful

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The Ataka Family

As Kuniko Ataka

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The Fencing Master

As Oharu

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The Genealogy of Women

As Otsuta

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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka

As Myokan

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The Age of Emotion

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Victory Song

As Woman who sings lullaby

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My Elder Brother

As Sumako

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On This Earth

As Omitsu, Heiichiro's mother

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Lady Doctor Kinuyo

As Kinuyo Yamaoka

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Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru

As Chiyo

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Song of the Flower Basket

As Yoko

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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

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Men vs. Women

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Sisters of Nishijin

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Sanbaba

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Stepbrothers

As Rie

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An Innocent Maid

As Oshige

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Young Lady

As Kinuko

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A Hen in the Wind

As Tokiko Amamiya

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Women in Prison

As Prison Warden

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Ugetsu

As Miyagi

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Double Wedding

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Sorrow Is Only for Women

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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

As the old family mistress

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Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

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Spring Thunder

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Confession

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The New Road: Ryota

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The Blacksmith of the Forest

As Omitsu

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Let's Go in Good Spirits

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Let's Go, Grandma!

As Kiku Sasaki

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Mother and Child

As Chieko

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Kinuyo's First Love

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Osaka Woman

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Weeds with flowers

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Okinu and Banto

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That Night's Woman

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Story of Lightning

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Mominoki wa Nokotta

As Tsuta