Kinuyo Tanaka
Japanese actress and film director · Japan · On the map · Actors · Lived 1909 to 1977 · aged 67
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).
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Lullaby of the EarthFilm1975Silver Bear for Best ActressAward1970Medal with Purple RibbonAward
Mominoki wa NokottaSeries, 1970Tsuta1965
Red BeardFilm, Madame Yasumoto1962
A Wanderer's NotebookFilm, Kishi, Fumiko's Mother1960
Her BrotherFilm, Mother1959Kinema Junpo Award for Best ActressAward1958
Equinox FlowerFilm, Kiyoko Hirayama1955
Forever a WomanFilm, Director1953
Love LetterFilm, Director1952
MotherFilm, Masako Fukuhara1950
The Munekata SistersFilm, Setsuko Munekata1948Mainichi Film Award for Best ActressAward
A Hen in the WindFilm, 1948Tokiko Amamiya1944
ArmyFilm, Waka1933
Dragnet GirlFilm, Tokiko1931
The Neighbour's Wife and MineFilm, Wife of the Playwright1929
I Graduated, But...Film, Machiko Nomoto1909Born29 November 1909People around Kinuyo
Yasujirō Ozu Directed I Graduated, But... and Dragnet Girl
Kenji Mizoguchi Directed Ugetsu and Sansho the Bailiff
Mikio Naruse Directed Mother and Ginza Cosmetics
Kyōko Kagawa Also in Red Beard, Sansho the Bailiff and Mother
Chishū Ryū Also in Red Beard and Dragnet Girl
Keisuke Kinoshita Directed The Ballad of Narayama and Army
Heinosuke Gosho Directed The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1931)
Masayuki Mori Also in The Lady of Musashino (1951)
Chōko Iida Also in Love, Be With Humanity: Part 1 (1931)
Takeshi Sakamoto Also in The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1931)- Ken Mitsuda Also in Sansho the Bailiff and Army
Kōgo Noda Wrote The Munekata Sisters and Flame of My Love
Tatsuo Saitō Also in Young Miss (1930)
Masaichi Nagata Produced Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff and Miss Oyu
Ichirō Saitō Wrote Ugetsu and The Life of Oharu
Yoshikata Yoda Wrote Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff and Miss Oyu
Ken Uehara Also in The Munekata Sisters and New Way: Akemi
Daisuke Katō Also in Arashi and A Wanderer's Notebook
Sadako Sawamura Also in Flame of My Love and Mother
Jūkichi Uno Also in The Life of Oharu (1952)
Haruko Sugimura Also in Army and Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Hideko Takamine Also in The Munekata Sisters (1950)
Shin Saburi Also in New Way: Akemi and Mother and Child
Shuji Sano Also in New Way: Akemi and Army
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Red Beard 1965
Sansho the Bailiff 1954
Ugetsu 1953
The Life of Oharu 1952
The Ballad of Narayama 1958
Filmography 40
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Television 1
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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).
