Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yûzô Kayama · Yoshio Tsuchiya · Kyôko Kagawa

Synopsis In the Nineteenth Century, in Japan, the arrogant and proud just-graduated Dr. Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) is forced to work in the Koshikawa Clinic, a non-profit health facility ruled by Dr. Kyojio Niide (Toshirô Mifune), a.k.a. "Red Beard". "Red Beard"...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Yoshiaki Hanayaki · Kyôko Kagawa · Eitarô Shindô

Synopsis In Sansho the Bailiff (1954), a compassionate governor is exiled, leaving his family—wife Tamaki, son Zushio, and daughter Anju—to fend for themselves. Separated by slavers, the children are sold to the ruthless Sansho, who forces them into brutal servitude. Years...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Machiko Kyô · Mitsuko Mito · Kinuyo Tanaka · Masayuki Mori

Synopsis Tales of Ugetsu (1953) is a hauntingly beautiful Japanese film set during the chaos of civil war. It follows two ambitious men—a potter seeking wealth and a farmer dreaming of becoming a samurai—whose desires lead them away from their families...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Tsukie Matsuura · Ichiro Sugai · Toshirô Mifune

Synopsis It tells the story of Oharu, a 50-year-old woman who suffers the strict conventions of 17th century Feudal Japan. She becomes the lover of a man, but when they are discovered, Oharu and her family are obliged to live in...

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Yumeji Tsukioka · Ryoji Hayama · Junkichi Orimoto · Hiroko Kawasaki

Synopsis Fumiko (Tsukioka Yurneji) is married to a taciturn and unsympathetic husband and has two children. She seems like a devoted and dutiful wife, but is dissatisfied with her situation. Her husband has an extra-marital affair that leads to a divorce,...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Hideko Takamine · Chishu Ryu · Tatsuo Saito · Sanae Takasugi

Synopsis Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago....

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Akira Takarada · Daisuke Kato · Keiju Kobayashi

Synopsis Biopic about the Japanese writer Fumiko Hayashi who developed her career from scratch.

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Shin Saburi · Kinuyo Tanaka · Ineko Arima · Yoshiko Kuga

Synopsis A business man is often approached by friends for advice and help regarding marriage as well as family and romantic relationships. He is always very calmly and objectively able to give great insight and assistance to these particular situations. However,...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Keiko Enonami · Kyôko Kagawa · Akihiko Katayama · Daisuke Kato

Synopsis A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Nobuko Otowa · Yuji Hori · Kiyoko Hirai

Synopsis 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 because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu...

Direction Mark Cousins

Cast Mania Akbari · Clio Barnard · Antonia Bird · Jane Campion

Synopsis The monumental but largely unrecognized efforts of female filmmakers across the years are highlighted and celebrated in this latest and epic entry from filmmaker and historian Mark Cousins.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Teiji Takahashi · Yûko Mochizuki · Danko Ichikawa

Synopsis 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 which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is...

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Masayuki Mori · Yoshiko Kuga · Jûkichi Uno · Kyôko Kagawa

Synopsis A sad and troubled man, Reikichi Mayumi (Masayuki Mori), finds a new job five years after the end of WWII. He will write love letters for other people.. His ideas about love and his personal principles will be tested when...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Isuzu Yamada · Hideko Takamine · Mariko Okada

Synopsis The narrative, as adapted from a book by Kodo Aya, concerns Rika (Kinuyo Tanaka), a widow whose dire financial circumstances force her to take a housemaid assignment in a failing Tokyo geisha house.

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Chishu Ryu · Hisako Yamane · Yôko Sugi · Mie Kitahara

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Tomoemon Otani · Yoshiko Kuga · Eitarô Shindô

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Shûji Sano · Chieko Murata · Chishu Ryu

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Sanae Takasugi · Tomie Tsunoda · Mitsuo Nagata

Synopsis Fusako Owada, a young woman in postwar Japan, is the mistress of a notorious drug dealer. Fusako's tenuous grasp on meaningful life is shaken when she learns that her lover is having an affair with her sister.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Toshirô Mifune · Jûkichi Uno · Nobuko Otowa

Synopsis Noriko is a married woman who commutes once a week between Tokyo, where she runs her family’s jewellery store, and her home at the coast. Her husband has been ill for some time already and has to remain in bed...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Ken Uehara · Haruko Sugimura · Keiji Sada

Synopsis Iemon Tamiya is an impovershed masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband