Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1909-11-28 (68 years old)
Deathday
1977-03-21
Place of Birth
Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
Also known As
다나카 키누요
کینو تاناکا
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...
1976
as Old Nun
1954
as Tamaki
1974
as Old Osaki
1958
as Kiyoko Hirayama
1943
1952
as Masako Fukuhara
1952
as Oharu
1954
as Hatsuko Mabuchi
1947
as Sumako Matsui
1951
as Oyû Kayukawa
1956
as Rika Yamanaka / Oharu
1950
as Setsuko Munekata
1963
as Youth's Mother
1948
as Fusako Owada
1944
as Shinobu Nonomiya
1946
as Okita
1960
as Mother
1949
as Eiko Hirayama
1933
as Harue
1947
as Sayoko Aihara
1963
as Nobuko Yazaki
1941
as Emi
1953
as Kuniko
1928
1945
1926
1958
as Orin
1962
as Kishi, Fumiko's mother
1931
as Wife of the playwright
1933
as Kaoru, a dancer
1963
as Shizuko Sonobe
1935
as Itsuko Kuriyama
1944
as Waka
1959
as Princess Yamato
1958
as Fumi
1950
as Noriko Kuki
1949
as Oiwa / Osode
1949
as Oiwa / Osode
1941
1942
2009
as Self (archive footage)
1955
as Neighbor's Wife
1955
as Yoneya
1935
as Okoto
1953
as Hisa Hosho
1946
as Hiroko Hosokawa
1954
1957
as Yukiko Matsumoto
1929
as Machiko Nomoto
1964
as Tsuna
1931
1961
as Michi's Mother
1959
as Shige Ozawa
1956
1953
as Hiroko Ogata
2022
as self (archive footage)
1930
1930
as Cafe's waitress
1932
as Oshige
1933
as Tokiko
1939
as Okayo
1965
as Madame Yasumoto
1934
as Osayo
1933
as Haruko, bride
1932
as Yae
1951
as Yukiko Tsuji
1951
as Onaka
1938
as Katsue Takaishi
1955
1951
as Michiko Akiyama
1947
as Fumie Matsukawa
1933
1957
as Oei
1953
as Landlady
1956
1952
as Kuniko Ataka
1962
as Oharu
1934
as Otsuta
1959
as Myokan
1945
as Woman who sings lullaby
1934
as Sumako
1957
as Omitsu, Heiichiro's mother
1937
as Kinuyo Yamaoka
1940
1937
as Yoko
1936
1974
1957
as Rie
1935
as Oshige
1930
as Kinuko
1948
as Tokiko Amamiya
1956
as Prison Warden
1953
as Miyagi
1963
1972
as the old family mistress
1943
as Kiyo
1939
1956
1929
as Omitsu
1975
as Kiku Sasaki
1938
as Chieko
1940
1940
1955
1961
as Director
1955
as Director
1955
as Director
1960
as Director
1962
as Director
1953
as Director
1953
as Assistant Director
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