Kinuyo Tanaka

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1909-11-28 (68 years old)

Deathday

1977-03-21

Place of Birth

Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan

Kinuyo Tanaka

Biography

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...

Acting

1976

1954

1974

Sandakan No. 8

as Old Osaki

1958

Equinox Flower

as Kiyoko Hirayama

1952

Mother

as Masako Fukuhara

1952

1954

The Woman in the Rumor

as Hatsuko Mabuchi

1947

1951

Miss Oyu

as Oyû Kayukawa

1956

Flowing

as Rika Yamanaka / Oharu

1950

The Munekata Sisters

as Setsuko Munekata

1963

Alone Across the Pacific

as Youth's Mother

1948

Women of the Night

as Fusako Owada

1944

Miyamoto Musashi

as Shinobu Nonomiya

1960

Her Brother

as Mother

1949

Flame of My Love

as Eiko Hirayama

1933

1947

Phoenix

as Sayoko Aihara

1963

Bright Sea

as Nobuko Yazaki

1953

Sincere Heart

as Kuniko

1962

A Wanderer's Notebook

as Kishi, Fumiko's mother

1931

The Neighbour's Wife and Mine

as Wife of the playwright

1933

The Dancing Girl of Izu

as Kaoru, a dancer

1963

A Legend, or Was It?

as Shizuko Sonobe

1935

Burden of Life

as Itsuko Kuriyama

1944

Army

as Waka

1959

The Three Treasures

as Princess Yamato

1950

Wedding Ring

as Noriko Kuki

1949

1949

1941

2009

The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka

as Self (archive footage)

1955

Forever a Woman

as Neighbor's Wife

1955

1935

1953

An Heir's Place

as Hisa Hosho

1946

Victory of Women

as Hiroko Hosokawa

1957

Yellow Crow

as Yukiko Matsumoto

1929

I Graduated, But...

as Machiko Nomoto

1961

Wakarete ikiru toki mo

as Michi's Mother

1959

Hahakogusa

as Shige Ozawa

1953

2022

Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About

as self (archive footage)

1930

I Flunked, But...

as Cafe's waitress

1933

Dragnet Girl

as Tokiko

1965

Red Beard

as Madame Yasumoto

1934

1933

1951

Ginza Cosmetics

as Yukiko Tsuji

1938

The Tree of Love

as Katsue Takaishi

1951

The Lady of Musashino

as Michiko Akiyama

1947

Marriage

as Fumie Matsukawa

1933

1953

Love Letter

as Landlady

1952

The Ataka Family

as Kuniko Ataka

1962

1945

Victory Song

as Woman who sings lullaby

1934

1957

On This Earth

as Omitsu, Heiichiro's mother

1937

Lady Doctor Kinuyo

as Kinuyo Yamaoka

1957

1935

1930

Young Lady

as Kinuko

1948

A Hen in the Wind

as Tokiko Amamiya

1956

Women in Prison

as Prison Warden

1953

Ugetsu

as Miyagi

1972

Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

as the old family mistress

1975

Let's Go, Grandma!

as Kiku Sasaki

1938

Production

1961

1955

Forever a Woman

as Director

1955

1960

1953

Love Letter

as Director

1953

Brother and Sister

as Assistant Director

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