Kinuyo Tanaka
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1909-11-28
Deathday 1977-03-21 (67 years old)
Place of Birth Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Also Known As 田中绢代, 다나카 키누요, Кинуё Танака
Kinuyo Tanaka
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 relationship ended when Mizoguchi countered a recommendation from the Directors Guild of Japan for the Nikkatsu studio to hire her as a director. Despite this, the production of her second film as director went ahead, but Tanaka never forgave Mizoguchi, and the reasons for his behaviour are unclear. She also played Noboru Yasumoto's mother in Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard (1965). For her portrayal in Kei Kumai's Sandakan N° 8 she won the Best Actress Award at the 25th Berlin International Film Festival in 1975.[2] Her last screen appearance was in 1976 in Kei Kumai's Kita No Misaki. Tanaka was the second Japanese woman who worked as a film director, after Sakane Tazuko (1904‐1975). Her first directing job was on the film Love Letter in 1953, and she made five further films in that role. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kinuyo Tanaka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Old Nun
as Kiku Sasaki
as Old Osaki
as the old family mistress
as Tsuta
as Madame Yasumoto
as Tsuna
as Nobuko Yazaki
as Youth's Mother
as Shizuko Sonobe
as Oharu
as Kishi, Fumiko's mother
as Michi's Mother
as Mother
as Princess Yamato
as Myokan
as Shige Ozawa
as Fumi
as Kiyoko Hirayama
as Orin
as Omitsu, Heiichiro's mother
as Oei
as Rie
as Yukiko Matsumoto
as Rika Yamanaka / Oharu
as Prison Warden
as Neighbor's wife
as Yoneya
as Hatsuko Mabuchi
as Tamaki
as Landlady
as Hisa Hosho
as Miyagi
as Hiroko Ogata
as Kuniko
as Masako Fukuhara
as Kuniko Ataka
as Oharu
as Michiko Akiyama
as Oyû Kayukawa
as Yukiko Tsuji
as Onaka
as Setsuko Munekata
as Noriko Kuki
as Oiwa / Osode
as Oiwa / Osode
as Eiko Hirayama
as Tokiko Amamiya
as Fusako Owada
as Sayoko Aihara
as Sumako Matsui
as Fumie Matsukawa
as Okita
as Hiroko Hosokawa
as Woman who sings lullaby
as Shinobu Nonomiya
as Waka
as Emi
as Chiyo
as Okayo
as Katsue Takaishi
as Chieko
as Kinuyo Yamaoka
as Yoko
as Itsuko Kuriyama
as Okoto
as Oshige
as Sumako
as Osayo
as Otsuta
as Tokiko
as Harue
as Kaoru, a dancer
as Haruko, bride
as Oshige
as Yae
as Wife of the playwright
as Kinuko
as Cafe's waitress
as Machiko Nomoto
as Omitsu
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director