Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

Ugetsu

82/100

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

Sansho the Bailiff

84/100

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

The Life of Oharu

82/100

Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of the society.

Equinox Flower

80/100

A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.

The Ballad of Narayama

80/100

A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

Miss Oyu

77/100

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu...

A Hen in the Wind

77/100

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife has resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son's hospital bills.

Eine Frau, von der man spricht

77/100

Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present day Kyoto. Her daughter Yukiko returns from Tokyo following a failed suicide attempt, after her lover found out ... See full summary »

Utamaro and His Five Women

72/100

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models...

Women of the Night

73/100

A mistress of a drug dealer in post-war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an affair with her sister.

Flowing

78/100

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo...

Dragnet Girl

71/100

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

The Munekata Sisters

75/100

Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been...

The Lady of Musashino

75/100

Mother

78/100

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

Sandakan 8

77/100

A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8.

Alone on the Pacific

71/100

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination.

Flame of My Love

76/100

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where...

Army

66/100

A widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines.

Younger Brother

71/100

Joyû Sumako no koi

71/100

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui...

Legend of a Duel to the Death

72/100

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove, which eventually leads to a violent tragedy.

Kita no misaki - Cap du nord

70/100

The humanistic story of conflict ranging from a nun's chaste commitment to god and her love for a man from Japan, the contrast between the rich and poor and the differences between the ... See full summary »

Sanjûsangen-dô, tôshiya monogatari

68/100

The Yotsuda Phantom

71/100

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