Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

Japanese film from 1925.

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Sakura Ondo was a sound adaptation based on a popular 1934 song, produced at the Shochiku Kamata Studio as part of a five-studio competition to...

Because of her husband’s suicide, a young widow finds herself suddenly cast into a life of solitude, with only her beloved child in her arms....

It is considered to be a lost film.

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Japanese contemporary drama from 1927.

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 the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...

1926 jidaigeki from Japan.

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...

Japanese silent film from 1930. The second chapter of "The Big City: Labor" (1929).

Japanese silent film from 1931.

Early silent film from Hiroshi Shimizu.

A dramatized chapter in the life of Shimizu Jirocho, a famous yakuza boss, gambler, and folk hero of the 1800s.

Japanese silent comedy from 1928.

Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealthy banker’s son....

Japanese film from 1934.

Early Japanese silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.