Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her...

1939 Japanese movie

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

short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.

Japanese film from 1925.

Yasue (Todoroki) and Fumikichi (Oda), a married couple, have no children, but they take in children from other places and wind up raising three kids.

Japanese war movie.

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

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

Japanese silent film from 1927, based on a popular serialized novel by Kan Kikuchi.

Early Japanese silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.

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

Japanese silent jidaigeki from 1927.

Lost Japanese silent film from 1931.

Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes...

Japanese silent film from 1929.

1926 silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.