Kinuyo Tanaka

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. She had a close working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi, having parts in 15 of his films, including leading roles in The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953) and Sansho the Bailiff (1954). Their working relationship ended when Mizoguchi countered a recommendation from the Directors Guild of Japan for the Nikkatsu studio to hire her as a director. Despite this, the production of her second film as director went ahead, but Tanaka never forgave Mizoguchi, and the reasons for his behaviour are unclear. She also played Noboru Yasumoto's mother in Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard (1965). For her portrayal in Kei Kumai's Sandakan N° 8 she won the Best Actress Award at the 25th Berlin International Film Festival in 1975.[2] Her last screen appearance was in 1976 in Kei Kumai's Kita No Misaki. Tanaka was the second Japanese woman who worked as a film director, after Sakane Tazuko (1904‐1975). Her first directing job was on the film Love Letter in 1953, and she made five further films in that role. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kinuyo Tanaka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan, 1909-11-28

Died: 1977-03-21

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1926	Karabotan		0
2	1928	The Village Bride		0
3	1928	The Age of Emotion		0
4	1928	Riku no ôja		0
5	1929	The Blacksmith of the Forest	Omitsu	0
6	1929	The Life of Workers in the Big City		0
7	1929	I Graduated, But...	Machiko Nomoto	56
8	1930	Marching On		0
9	1930	I Flunked, But...	Cafe's waitress	61
10	1930	Youth, Why Do You Cry?		0
11	1930	Young Lady	Kinuko	0
12	1931	Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2		0
13	1931	The Neighbour's Wife and Mine	Wife of the playwright	65
14	1931	ABC Lifeline		61
15	1932	The Loyal 47 Ronin	Yae	0
16	1932	Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?	Oshige	65
17	1933	The Bride Talks in Her Sleep	Haruko, bride	0
18	1933	The Dancing Girl of Izu	Kaoru, a dancer	65
19	1933	Woman of Tokyo	Harue	68
20	1933	Dragnet Girl	Tokiko	67
21	1933	Sôbô		0
22	1934	The Genealogy of Women	Otsuta	0
23	1934	Osayo koisugata	Osayo	0
24	1934	That Night's Woman		0
25	1934	My Elder Brother	Sumako	60
26	1935	An Innocent Maid	Oshige	0
27	1935	Okoto and Sasuke	Okoto	67
28	1935	Burden of Life	Itsuko Kuriyama	64
29	1936	Men vs. Women		0
30	1936	The New Road: Akemi		70
31	1936	The New Road: Ryota		80
32	1937	Song of the Flower Basket	Yoko	0
33	1937	Lady Doctor Kinuyo	Kinuyo Yamaoka	46
34	1937	A Man's Recompense: Part 1		0
35	1937	A Man's Recompense: Part 2		0
36	1937	Banchō sarayashiki		0
37	1938	Mother and Child	Chieko	0
38	1938	The Tree of Love	Katsue Takaishi	65
39	1939	Okayo's Preparedness	Okayo	70
40	1939	Spring Thunder		0
41	1939	Zoku aizen katsura		0
42	1939	Weeds with flowers		0
43	1940	Kinuyo's First Love		60
44	1940	Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru	Chiyo	0
45	1940	Osaka Woman		0
46	1940	Okinu and Banto		0
47	1941	Let's Go in Good Spirits		0
48	1941	Flower		0
49	1941	Ornamental Hairpin	Emi	65
50	1941	Record of a Woman Doctor		60
51	1942	A Certain Woman		0
52	1943	Kaisen no Zenya		0
53	1943	Air Raid of the Enemy Plane	Kiyo	0
54	1944	The Man Who Has Returned		0
55	1944	Army	Waka	69
56	1944	Miyamoto Musashi	Shinobu Nonomiya	61
57	1945	Victory Song	Woman who sings lullaby	52
58	1945	A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo	Okinu	58
59	1946	Victory of Women	Hiroko Hosokawa	65
60	1946	Utamaro and His Five Women	Okita	71
61	1947	Marriage	Fumie Matsukawa	70
62	1947	The Love of the Actress Sumako	Sumako Matsui	68
63	1947	Phoenix	Sayoko Aihara	60
64	1948	Women of the Night	Fusako Owada	71
65	1948	A Hen in the Wind	Tokiko Amamiya	71
66	1949	Flame of My Love	Eiko Hirayama	56
67	1949	Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1	Oiwa / Osode	67
68	1949	Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2	Oiwa / Osode	67
69	1950	Wedding Ring	Noriko Kuki	66
70	1950	The Munekata Sisters	Setsuko Munekata	70
71	1951	The Inner Palace Conspiracy	Onaka	0
72	1951	Ginza Cosmetics	Yukiko Tsuji	62
73	1951	Miss Oyu	Oyû Kayukawa	72
74	1951	The Lady of Musashino	Michiko Akiyama	64
75	1951	Story of Lightning		0
76	1952	The Life of Oharu	Oharu	78
77	1952	Sisters of Nishijin		80
78	1952	The Ataka Family	Kuniko Ataka	55
79	1952	Mother	Masako Fukuhara	69
80	1953	Sincere Heart	Kuniko	63
81	1953	Where Chimneys Are Seen	Hiroko Ogata	64
82	1953	Ugetsu	Miyagi	80
83	1953	An Heir's Place	Hisa Hosho	0
84	1953	Love Letter	Landlady	68
85	1954	Sansho the Bailiff	Tamaki	81
86	1954	Five Sisters		77
87	1954	The Woman in the Rumor	Hatsuko Mabuchi	73
88	1955	The Moon Has Risen	Yoneya	68
89	1955	(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home	Oshige	0
90	1955	少年死刑囚		0
91	1955	Tsukiyo no kasa		0
92	1955	Forever a Woman	Neighbor's Wife	75
93	1956	Confession		0
94	1956	How Sorrowful		0
95	1956	Women in Prison	Prison Warden	10
96	1956	The Storm		90
97	1956	Flowing	Rika Yamanaka / Oharu	71
98	1957	Yellow Crow	Yukiko Matsumoto	62
99	1957	Stepbrothers	Rie	70
100	1957	Geisha in the Old City	Oei	0
101	1957	On This Earth	Omitsu, Heiichiro's mother	0
102	1958	Sorrow Is Only for Women		0
103	1958	The Ballad of Narayama	Orin	75
104	1958	Equinox Flower	Kiyoko Hirayama	74
105	1958	The Eternal Rainbow	Fumi	63
106	1959	Hahakogusa	Shige Ozawa	0
107	1959	Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka	Myokan	57
108	1959	The Three Treasures	Princess Yamato	54
109	1960	Her Brother	Mother	69
110	1961	Wakarete ikiru toki mo	Michi's Mother	0
111	1962	A Wanderer's Notebook	Kishi, Fumiko's mother	72
112	1962	The Fencing Master	Oharu	55
113	1962	Mama, I Need You!		0
114	1963	Double Wedding		0
115	1963	A Legend, or Was It?	Shizuko Sonobe	65
116	1963	Alone Across the Pacific	Youth's Mother	69
117	1963	Bright Sea	Nobuko Yazaki	0
118	1964	The Scent of Incense	Tsuna	72
119	1964	Kono sora no aru kagiri		0
120	1965	Red Beard	Madame Yasumoto	81
121	1972	Tora-san's Dream-Come-True	the old family mistress	76
122	1974	Sanbaba		0
123	1974	Sandakan No. 8	Old Osaki	77
124	1975	Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director		68
125	1975	Let's Go, Grandma!	Kiku Sasaki	0
126	1976	Cape of the North	Old Nun	0
127	1976	Lullaby of the Earth		65
128	2009	The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka	Self (archive footage)	40
129	2022	Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About	self (archive footage)	0

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