# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kinuyo-tanaka
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:18:31.016Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kinuyo-tanaka"
name: "Kinuyo Tanaka"
slug: "kinuyo-tanaka"
description: "Kinuyo Tanaka  was a Japanese actress and film director. She had a career lasting over 50 years with more than 250 acting credits, but was best known for her 15 films with director Kenji Mizoguchi, such as The Life of Oharu (1952) and Ugetsu (1953). With her 1953 directorial debut, Love Letter, Tanaka became the second Japanese woman to direct a film, after Tazuko Sakane. Tanaka won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her performance in the film Sandakan No. 8 (1974)."
tagline: "Japanese actress and film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kinuyo_Tanaka_in_Jinsei_no_onimotsu_1935.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1909-11-29"
deathDate: "1977-03-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.2103321033210332
  historical:           21.446796
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849011/"
    handle:    "nm0849011"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump