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

2022
Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About

as self (archive footage)

2009
The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka

as Self (archive footage)

1976
1975
Let's Go, Grandma!

as Kiku Sasaki

1974
Sandakan No. 8

as Old Osaki

1972
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

as the old family mistress

1970
1965
Red Beard

as Madame Yasumoto

1963
Bright Sea

as Nobuko Yazaki

1963
Alone Across the Pacific

as Youth's Mother

1963
A Legend, or Was It?

as Shizuko Sonobe

1962
1962
A Wanderer's Notebook

as Kishi, Fumiko's mother

1961
Wakarete ikiru toki mo

as Michi's Mother

1960
Her Brother

as Mother

1959
The Three Treasures

as Princess Yamato

1959
Hahakogusa

as Shige Ozawa

1958
Equinox Flower

as Kiyoko Hirayama

1957
On This Earth

as Omitsu, Heiichiro's mother

1957
1957
Yellow Crow

as Yukiko Matsumoto

1956
Flowing

as Rika Yamanaka / Oharu

1956
Women in Prison

as Prison Warden

1955
Forever a Woman

as Neighbor's wife

1955
1954
The Woman in the Rumor

as Hatsuko Mabuchi

1954
1953
Love Letter

as Landlady

1953
An Heir's Place

as Hisa Hosho

1953
Ugetsu

as Miyagi

1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen

as Hiroko Ogata

1953
Sincere Heart

as Kuniko

1952
Mother

as Masako Fukuhara

1952
The Ataka Family

as Kuniko Ataka

1952
1951
The Lady of Musashino

as Michiko Akiyama

1951
Miss Oyu

as Oyû Kayukawa

1951
Ginza Cosmetics

as Yukiko Tsuji

1950
The Munekata Sisters

as Setsuko Munekata

1950
Wedding Ring

as Noriko Kuki

1949
1949
1949
Flame of My Love

as Eiko Hirayama

1948
A Hen in the Wind

as Tokiko Amamiya

1948
Women of the Night

as Fusako Owada

1947
Phoenix

as Sayoko Aihara

1947
1947
Marriage

as Fumie Matsukawa

1946
Victory of Women

as Hiroko Hosokawa

1945
Victory Song

as Woman who sings lullaby

1944
Miyamoto Musashi

as Shinobu Nonomiya

1944
Army

as Waka

1941
1938
The Tree of Love

as Katsue Takaishi

1938
1937
Lady Doctor Kinuyo

as Kinuyo Yamaoka

1935
Burden of Life

as Itsuko Kuriyama

1935
1935
1934
My Elder Brother

as Сумако

1934
1933
1933
Dragnet Girl

as Tokiko

1933
1933
The Dancing Girl of Izu

as Kaoru, a dancer

1933
1931
The Neighbour's Wife and Mine

as Wife of the playwright

1930
Young Lady

as Kinuko

1930
I Flunked, But...

as Cafe's waitress

1929
I Graduated, But...

as Machiko Nomoto

Director

1962
1961
Girls of the Night

as Director

1960
1955
Forever a Woman

as Director

1955
The Moon Has Risen

as Director

1953
Love Letter

as Director