Kinuyo Tanaka
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 seventeen years old, appearing in Heinosuke Gosho's An Embarrassing Dream in 1927. She proceeded to take leading parts in, among others, Yasujirō Ozu's I Graduated, But... in 1929, Gosho's Aiyoku no ki in 1930, and in 1931, Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, directed by 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. 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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2464 |
| Birthday | 1909-11-28 |
| Place of Birth | Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan |
| Also Known As | 다나카 키누요, کینو تاناکا, 田中 絹代, |
1976
Cape of the North
9/1
A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.
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Cape of the North
1954
Sansho the Bailiff
8.065/422
In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushi...
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Sansho the Bailiff
1974
Sandakan No. 8
7.722/18
A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.
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Sandakan No. 8
1958
Equinox Flower
7.436/165
Wataru's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares her love for a coworker and is adamant to live her own way...
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Equinox Flower
1943
Kaisen no Zenya
0/0
Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan
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Kaisen no Zenya
1952
Mother
6.95/20
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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Mother
1952
The Life of Oharu
7.69/195
During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
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The Life of Oharu
1947
The Love of the Actress Sumako
7/6
Stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be wi...
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
1951
Miss Oyu
7.229/59
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry...
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Miss Oyu
1954
The Woman in the Rumor
7.256/45
After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much.
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The Woman in the Rumor
1956
Flowing
7.176/34
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...
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Flowing
1964
Kono sora no aru kagiri
0/0
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Kono sora no aru kagiri
1950
The Munekata Sisters
7.097/36
Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose wh...
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The Munekata Sisters
1939
Zoku aizen katsura
8/1
1939 Japanese movie
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Zoku aizen katsura
1963
Alone Across the Pacific
7/13
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful p...
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Alone Across the Pacific
1948
Women of the Night
7.113/31
In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law—descend into prostitution,...
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Women of the Night
1944
Miyamoto Musashi
6.364/11
Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them to avenge their father's death. The perpetrators of their...
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Miyamoto Musashi
1946
Utamaro and His Five Women
7.176/34
Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the Tokyo brothels provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him...
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Utamaro and His Five Women
1960
Her Brother
7.059/17
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a...
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Her Brother
1949
Flame of My Love
5.364/11
In 1880s Japan, women's struggle for equality rages on. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...
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Flame of My Love
1933
Woman of Tokyo
6.771/35
Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.
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Woman of Tokyo
1947
Phoenix
6.375/8
A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.
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Phoenix
1963
Bright Sea
9/1
On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university ye...
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Bright Sea
1941
Ornamental Hairpin
6.696/23
A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among the...
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Ornamental Hairpin
1953
Sincere Heart
6.364/11
A young student falls for an invalid girl whom he can only see from afar.
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Sincere Heart
1928
The Village Bride
8/1
Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.
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The Village Bride
1928
King of the Land
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.
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King of the Land
1945
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
6.143/7
Young, timid bowmaster Kazuma seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious figure who, it is rumoured, drove the previous c...
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A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
1926
Useless Button
0/0
A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over somethi...
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Useless Button
1929
The Big City: Labor
9/1
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The Big City: Labor
1958
The Ballad of Narayama
7.511/89
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in...
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The Ballad of Narayama
1962
A Wanderer's Notebook
7.167/12
Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her a...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
1931
The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
6.6/15
A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...
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The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
1933
The Dancing Girl of Izu
6.667/3
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...
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The Dancing Girl of Izu
1963
A Legend or Was It?
6.929/14
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
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A Legend or Was It?
1935
Burden of Life
6.625/8
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.
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Burden of Life
1944
Army
6.75/16
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.
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Army
1930
Youth, Why Do You Cry?
0/0
A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.
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Youth, Why Do You Cry?
1959
The Three Treasures
5.5/14
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Empe...
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The Three Treasures
1958
The Eternal Rainbow
7.25/4
Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.
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The Eternal Rainbow
1937
Banchō sarayashiki
0/0
short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.
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Banchō sarayashiki
1950
Wedding Ring
6.583/12
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
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Wedding Ring
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
6.6/15
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely d...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
6.571/14
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
1937
A Man's Recompense: Part 1
0/0
Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to...
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A Man's Recompense: Part 1
1937
A Man's Recompense: Part 2
0/0
Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to...
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A Man's Recompense: Part 2
1941
Flower
0/0
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 mar...
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Flower
1942
A Certain Woman
7/1
Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who...
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A Certain Woman
2009
The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka
4/1
Compilation of film footage documenting Japanese film star Kinuyo Tanaka's goodwill tour of the U.S. in 1949.
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The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka
1955
Forever a Woman
7.645/31
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her success...
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Forever a Woman
1955
The Moon Has Risen
6.875/24
Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in...
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The Moon Has Risen
1941
Record of a Woman Doctor
6/1
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 preju...
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Record of a Woman Doctor
1935
Okoto and Sasuke
6.75/4
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 Jun...
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Okoto and Sasuke
1953
An Heir's Place
10/1
This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by Hasega...
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An Heir's Place
1946
Victory of Women
7.125/4
Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's dem...
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Victory of Women
1954
Five Sisters
8/4
The story of five sisters.
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Five Sisters
1957
Yellow Crow
6.714/7
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 been...
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Yellow Crow
1929
I Graduated, But...
5.76/25
Tetsuo Nomoto, a young college graduate tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the fact...
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I Graduated, But...
1964
The Scent of Incense
7.2/10
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life d...
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The Scent of Incense
1936
The New Road: Akemi
8.5/2
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told...
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The New Road: Akemi
1961
Eternity of Love
8/1
A Hiromichi Horikawa movie
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Eternity of Love
1959
Hahakogusa
0/0
Based on the Nobu Koito story
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Hahakogusa
1956
The Storm
8.5/2
A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
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The Storm
1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen
6.607/14
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
2022
Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About
0/0
This documentary composed of numerous testimonies and archives, filmed in Japan highlights the extraordinary career of the actress-director Kinuyo Tan...
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Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About
1930
Marching On
10/1
A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of the local...
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Marching On
1944
The Man Who Has Returned
10/1
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The Man Who Has Returned
1930
I Flunked, But...
5.933/15
After the plans of a group of college students to cheat on their final exams goes awry, they're left to reassess their lives and educations and get ba...
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I Flunked, But...
1932
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
6.5/22
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
1933
Dragnet Girl
6.704/27
A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.
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Dragnet Girl
1939
Okayo's Preparedness
7/1
A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.
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Okayo's Preparedness
1965
Red Beard
8.143/406
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...
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Red Beard
1962
Mama, I Need You!
0/0
After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a...
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Mama, I Need You!
1955
House of Many Pleasures
9/1
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the...
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House of Many Pleasures
1934
Osayo Koi Sugata
8/1
The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble payin...
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Osayo Koi Sugata
1933
The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
7/1
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 earl...
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The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
1976
Lullaby of the Earth
6.4/15
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and decepti...
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Lullaby of the Earth
1932
The Loyal 47 Ronin
0/0
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their f...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
1951
Ginza Cosmetics
6.5/14
A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a smart young boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to others' needs,...
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Ginza Cosmetics
1951
The Inner Palace Conspiracy
8/1
A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka stylishly...
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The Inner Palace Conspiracy
1938
The Tree of Love
7/3
A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run a...
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The Tree of Love
1955
Tsukiyo no kasa
0/0
Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two p...
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Tsukiyo no kasa
1951
The Lady of Musashino
6.167/18
In post-war Japan, Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become cl...
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The Lady of Musashino
1947
Marriage
7.667/3
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.
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Marriage
1933
Sôbô
8/1
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
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Sôbô
1957
Geisha in the Old City
10/1
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and res...
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Geisha in the Old City
1953
Love Letter
6.845/29
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
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Love Letter
1956
How Sorrowful
0/0
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...
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How Sorrowful
1952
The Ataka Family
5.5/1
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to h...
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The Ataka Family
1962
The Fencing Master
5.875/4
The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives fo...
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The Fencing Master
1934
The Genealogy of Women
10/1
A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The Romanc...
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The Genealogy of Women
1959
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
5.25/8
Chubei, the adopted son of an Osaka courier, falls desperately in love with the courtesan Umegawa. To prevent a wealthy client from purchasing her, he...
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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
1928
The Age of Emotion
8/1
A young man torn between love and friendship.
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The Age of Emotion
1945
Victory Song
6/5
An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort.
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Victory Song
1934
My Elder Brother
6/1
Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his mother. J...
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My Elder Brother
1957
On This Earth
7/1
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Un...
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On This Earth
1937
Lady Doctor Kinuyo
5.5/5
Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...
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Lady Doctor Kinuyo
1940
Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
0/0
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Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
1937
Song of the Flower Basket
8/1
Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.
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Song of the Flower Basket
1975
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
7.214/14
In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts the life...
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1936
Men vs. Women
7/1
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
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Men vs. Women
1952
Sisters of Nishijin
7.5/2
A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
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Sisters of Nishijin
1974
Sanbaba
9/1
A story about being scared of getting old.
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Sanbaba
1957
Stepbrothers
7.429/7
In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to re...
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Stepbrothers
1935
An Innocent Maid
7/1
In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the neig...
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An Innocent Maid
1930
Young Lady
8/1
Lost film. Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journalist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her t...
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Young Lady
1948
A Hen in the Wind
7.138/58
Tokiko patiently awaits her husband's return from WWII when her four-year old son falls ill. She takes him to the doctor but has no means of paying, s...
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A Hen in the Wind
1956
Women in Prison
4/3
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...
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Women in Prison
1953
Ugetsu
8.002/636
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage'...
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Ugetsu
1963
Double Wedding
0/0
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Double Wedding
1958
Sorrow Is Only for Women
8/1
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.
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Sorrow Is Only for Women
1972
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
8/6
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals...
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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
1943
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
0/0
Japanese war movie.
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Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
1939
Spring Thunder
0/0
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 c...
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Spring Thunder
1956
Confession
0/0
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Confession
1936
The New Road: Ryota
7.5/2
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the per...
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The New Road: Ryota
1929
The Blacksmith of the Forest
8/1
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 blacksmith's...
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The Blacksmith of the Forest
1941
Let's Go in Good Spirits
0/0
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 “waiter” literally....
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Let's Go in Good Spirits
1975
Let's Go, Grandma!
10/1
Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling he...
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Let's Go, Grandma!
1938
Mother and Child
0/0
The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mot...
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Mother and Child
1940
Kinuyo's First Love
7.5/2
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 relations...
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Kinuyo's First Love
1940
Osaka Woman
7/1
When wealthy Ochika marries desolute Danpei, she devotes herself completely to him and takes over her business, to the point of sowing dissensions wit...
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Osaka Woman
1939
Weeds with flowers
0/0
Weed with Flowers
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Weeds with flowers
1940
Okinu and Banto
10/1
A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.
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Okinu and Banto
1934
That Night's Woman
10/1
That Night's Woman
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That Night's Woman
1951
Story of Lightning
10/1
Gensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was hesitant to get married because he had to feed his fathe...
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Story of Lightning
1955
Shōnen shikeishū
0/0
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Shōnen shikeishū
1924
A Woman from the Genroku Era
0/0
Japanese film from 1924.
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A Woman from the Genroku Era
1924
Village Pasture
7/1
Japanese film from 1924.
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Village Pasture
1925
The Little Traveling Entertainer
0/0
Japanese film from 1925.
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The Little Traveling Entertainer
1925
Cry of the Raging Current
0/0
Japanese film from 1925.
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Cry of the Raging Current
1925
Brave Love
0/0
Japanese film from 1925.
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Brave Love
1925
The Killing of a Hundred Men at Isshinji Temple
0/0
Japanese film from 1925.
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The Killing of a Hundred Men at Isshinji Temple
1925
Nature Is the Judge
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1925.
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Nature Is the Judge
1925
Fallen Samurai
0/0
A period drama about samurai who survived a loss in battle. An early jidaegeki by Hiroshi Shimizu.
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Fallen Samurai
1925
Love's Snare
0/0
Early silent film from Hiroshi Shimizu.
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Love's Snare
1925
No Need for Your Opinion
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1925 featuring Kinuyo Tanaka.
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No Need for Your Opinion
1926
Troubled Days
0/0
Early Japanese silent film by Hiroshi Shimizu.
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Troubled Days
1926
Townspeople
8/1
Early Japanese silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.
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Townspeople
1926
Oh! Carefree, Aren't You?
0/0
Short Japanese silent comedy from 1926. Directed by "Kamata Nonkinosuke," a probable pseudonym for a junior director (literally "Carefree Man from Kam...
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Oh! Carefree, Aren't You?
1926
Young Master
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.
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Young Master
1926
Torrent
9/1
Japanese silent film from 1926, directed by Heinosuke Gosho and featuring Kinuyo Tanaka.
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Torrent
1926
The Betrayed
0/0
1926 jidaigeki (period drama) directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.
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The Betrayed
1926
Love and Courage
0/0
Japanese silent film (jidaigeki) from 1926.
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Love and Courage
1926
The Cursed Sword
0/0
1926 jidaigeki from Japan.
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The Cursed Sword
1926
The Complete Story of Jirocho Shimizu, Part 2: Ashura's Revenge
0/0
A dramatized chapter in the life of Shimizu Jirocho, a famous yakuza boss, gambler, and folk hero of the 1800s.
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The Complete Story of Jirocho Shimizu, Part 2: Ashura's Revenge
1926
Her
9/1
1926 silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.
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Her
1926
Flashing Blade
0/0
Silent jidaigeki released on New Year's Eve, 1926.
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Flashing Blade
1926
Buried Youth
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1926.
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Buried Youth
1927
Secret Struggle
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Japanese silent drama from 1927.
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Secret Struggle
1927
The Basement
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Japanese silent film from 1927.
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The Basement
1927
Yakko no Koman
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1927.
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Yakko no Koman
1927
The Harakiri at Tennōji
0/0
Silent jidaigeki (Japanese samurai film) from 1927.
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The Harakiri at Tennōji
1927
Takada no Baba
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1927.
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Takada no Baba
1927
An Embarrassing Dream
9/1
Japanese silent film from 1927. A landmark in the careers of two up-and-coming stars: director Heinosuke Gosho and, newly promoted to a starring role,...
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An Embarrassing Dream
1927
Magic
0/0
Japanese jidaigeki from 1927.
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Magic
1927
Song of the Border Patrol
0/0
Japanese contemporary drama from 1927.
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Song of the Border Patrol
1927
Madame Pearl
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1927, based on a popular serialized novel by Kan Kikuchi.
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Madame Pearl
1927
The Oath of a Thousand Kills
0/0
Japanese silent jidaigeki from 1927.
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The Oath of a Thousand Kills
1927
Sankichi the Flying Squirrel
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Japanese jidaigeki from 1927. The titular character's nickname may suggest agility, stealth, or other outstanding skills.
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Sankichi the Flying Squirrel
1927
Night is a Trickster
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1927.
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Night is a Trickster
1927
Lovers' Suicide at Kiso
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1927.
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Lovers' Suicide at Kiso
1928
Modern Warrior Training
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1928.
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Modern Warrior Training
1928
Chronicles of a Sea Country
9/1
Japanese silent film from 1928, co-starring Chojiro Hayashi and up-and-coming actress Kinuyo Tanaka.
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Chronicles of a Sea Country
1928
If Only She...
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1928.
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If Only She...
1928
Immortal Love
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1928.
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Immortal Love
1928
The Eternal Heart
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The logger Yamato has been raising his daughter alone since his wife died in childbirth. The baron who owns the forests where he works convinces him t...
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The Eternal Heart
1928
Iron Virgin
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After being separated from their parents in childhood and left as orphans, Kyōko and Namiko were raised with the love of their aunt and grew into beau...
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Iron Virgin
1928
What a Handsome Man!
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1928.
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What a Handsome Man!
1928
The Face of Humanity
7/1
Japanese silent film from 1928.
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The Face of Humanity
1928
A Wife Quits
0/0
Hirano's wife Yasuko had grown weary of her life of poverty. Her feelings of dissatisfaction deepened when she met her elegantly dressed friend Hanako...
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A Wife Quits
1928
Thank You for Your Hard Work
0/0
Japanese silent comedy from 1928.
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Thank You for Your Hard Work
1928
The Glory of the Shōwa Era
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1928.
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The Glory of the Shōwa Era
1928
Symphony of Youth
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1928.
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Symphony of Youth
1930
Mother, Don't Tarnish Your Name
10/1
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. At first...
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Mother, Don't Tarnish Your Name
1929
Echigo Lion
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1929.
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Echigo Lion
1929
Him and Life
8/1
Japanese silent film from 1929.
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Him and Life
1929
The Village Where the Skylark Sings
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1929.
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The Village Where the Skylark Sings
1929
The Model of New Women
0/0
A feature-length work based on Kan Kikuchi’s newspaper novel, adapted for the screen by Kōgo Noda. With performances by stars such as Shizue Ryūda, Ki...
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The Model of New Women
1929
Cheerful Song
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Japanese silent film from 1929.
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Cheerful Song
1929
Triumphant Song of the Mountain
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1929.
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Triumphant Song of the Mountain
1929
The Father and His Son
10/1
Japanese silent film from 1929.
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The Father and His Son
1930
The Beating
0/0
Japanese silent comedy from 1930. The directorial debut of Hiromasa Nomura.
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The Beating
1930
Song of Youth
0/0
Shirō Kuroki, the adopted son of the Yamada family, shares a deep and mutual love with his foster sister, Kinuko Yamada. His commitment to political a...
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Song of Youth
1930
Where Do Women Go?
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1930 with an acclaimed performance by Sumiko Kurishima.
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Where Do Women Go?
1930
A Smiling Life
10/1
Japanese silent film from 1930.
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A Smiling Life
1930
The Big City: Explosion
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1930. The second chapter of "The Big City: Labor" (1929).
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The Big City: Explosion
1930
The Great Ship
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1930.
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The Great Ship
1930
The Tale of Kinuyo
9/1
Japanese silent film from 1930. Directed by Heinosuke Gosho, the film marked a new stage in the artistry of Kinuyo Tanaka, earning acclaim strong enou...
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The Tale of Kinuyo
1930
Record of Love and Desire
9/1
Record of Love and Desire a.k.a. Desire of Night (愛慾の記[b], Aiyoku no ki; lit. "Memories of Love and Desire") is a 1930 Japanese silent film direct...
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Record of Love and Desire
1931
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
7/1
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lum...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
1931
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
8/1
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lum...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
1931
Cry Cheerfully!
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1931.
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Cry Cheerfully!
1931
Sisters: Part 1
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1931.
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Sisters: Part 1
1931
Sisters: Part 2
7/1
Japanese silent film from 1931.
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Sisters: Part 2
1931
The Tramp and His Daughter
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1931.
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The Tramp and His Daughter
1931
ABC Lifeline: Fujieda Chapter
0/0
First chapter of Tasujiro Shimazu's ABC Lifeline, released two months before ABC Lifeline: Part 1 and ABC Lifeline: Part 2.
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ABC Lifeline: Fujieda Chapter
1931
ABC Lifeline
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Japanese silent film directed by Yasujirô Shimazu, originally released as a two-part movie on December 11, 1931.
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ABC Lifeline
1931
Woman of Suffering
0/0
Lost Japanese silent film from 1931.
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Woman of Suffering
1932
The Golden Demon
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Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealthy banker’s son. Heartbroken, Kan’ichi...
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The Golden Demon
1932
Victory or Defeat
0/0
Japanese film from 1932, adapted from the novel by Kan Kikuchi. The first sound film from director Yasujiro Shimazu.
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Victory or Defeat
1932
My Brother's a Fool
10/1
Japanese film from 1932.
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My Brother's a Fool
1932
The Willows of Ginza
9/1
Japanese film from 1932.
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The Willows of Ginza
1932
The Sun Rises from the East
7/1
The Japanese debut film of silent-era star Sessue Hayakawa, in which he not only starred but directed.
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The Sun Rises from the East
1932
Studio Romance: A Guide to Love
10/1
Japanese film from 1932.
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Studio Romance: A Guide to Love
1932
Shine, Japanese Women
10/1
Shigeko and Midori, star swimmers at the renowned Kirishima Girls’ School, are training relentlessly with their sights set on the Los Angeles Olympics...
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Shine, Japanese Women
1932
Love in Tokyo
7/1
Japanese silent film from 1932.
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Love in Tokyo
1932
Storm Zone
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1932.
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Storm Zone
1933
The Cheerleading Captain's Love
8/1
Tsukamoto and Omitsu are close friends, but one day, Tsukamoto becomes fascinated by Ayako, whom he meets at the home of Miyajima.
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The Cheerleading Captain's Love
1933
Clear and Cloudy
0/0
Japanese film from 1933, adapted from a story serialized in the entertainment magazine "Fuji."
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Clear and Cloudy
1933
The Road to Marriage
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1933.
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The Road to Marriage
1933
Before the Wedding
0/0
Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.
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Before the Wedding
1933
Daphne
0/0
Japanese film from 1933, adapted from Masao Kume's serialized newspaper novel.
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Daphne
1934
Mother of the East
7/1
Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.
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Mother of the East
1934
Sakura Ondo
7/1
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 create...
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Sakura Ondo
1934
Constellations on Earth, Part One: Earth Chapter
10/1
Japanese film from 1934, based on a novel by Itsuma Maki (real name Kaitarō Hasegawa).
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Constellations on Earth, Part One: Earth Chapter
1934
Constellations on Earth, Part 2: Constellations
9/1
Japanese film from 1934, based on a novel by Itsuma Maki (real name Kaitarō Hasegawa).
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Constellations on Earth, Part 2: Constellations
1934
Honeymoon
0/0
Japanese film from 1934.
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Honeymoon
1934
Storm in the City
0/0
Japanese movie from 1934. The final film of director Hôtei Nomura, who died from a stroke suffered at a screening of this film.
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Storm in the City
1952
Himitsu
8/1
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Himitsu
1946
Kanojo no hatsugen
0/0
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