Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

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

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

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the...

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...

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has...

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 1927.

Japanese silent film from 1925.

A story about being scared of getting old.

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

Japanese film from 1934, based on a novel by Itsuma Maki (real name Kaitarō Hasegawa).

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human...

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

A feature-length work based on Kan Kikuchi’s newspaper novel, adapted for the screen by Kōgo Noda. With performances by stars such as...

Japanese silent film from 1930.

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

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