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 d
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Personal Info

Id

24551

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

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Gender

Female

Birthday

1909-11-28

Place of Birth

Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan

Also Known As

  • 다나카 키누요
  • کینو تاناکا
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    Yes! Looking good!

    Known For

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    Cape of the

    Sansho the Bailiff

    Sansho the B

    Sandakan No. 8

    Sandakan No.

    Equinox Flower

    Equinox Flow

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    Kaisen no Ze

    Mother

    Mother

    The Life of Oharu

    The Life of

    The Woman in the Rumor

    The Woman in

    The Love of the Actress Sumako

    The Love of

    Miss Oyu

    Miss Oyu

    Flowing

    Flowing

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    Kono sora no

    The Munekata Sisters

    The Munekata

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    Zoku aizen k

    Alone Across the Pacific

    Alone Across

    Women of the Night

    Women of the

    Miyamoto Musashi

    Miyamoto Mus

    Utamaro and His Five Women

    Utamaro and

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    Her Brother

    Flame of My Love

    Flame of My

    Woman of Tokyo

    Woman of Tok

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    Phoenix

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    Bright Sea

    Ornamental Hairpin

    Ornamental H

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    Sincere Hear

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    The Village

    A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo

    A Tale of Ar

    The Ballad of Narayama

    The Ballad o

    A Wanderer's Notebook

    A Wanderer's

    The Neighbour's Wife and Mine

    The Neighbou

    The Dancing Girl of Izu

    The Dancing

    A Legend, or Was It?

    A Legend, or

    Burden of Life

    Burden of Li

    Army

    Army

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    Youth, Why D

    The Three Treasures

    The Three Tr

    The Eternal Rainbow

    The Eternal

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    Banchō saray

    Wedding Ring

    Wedding Ring

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    Yotsuya Ghos

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    A Man's Reco

    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

    Yotsuya Ghos

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    A Man's Reco

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    Flower

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    A Certain Wo

    The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka

    The Travels

    Forever a Woman

    Forever a Wo

    The Moon Has Risen

    The Moon Has

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    Record of a

    Okoto and Sasuke

    Okoto and Sa

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    An Heir's Pl

    Victory of Women

    Victory of W

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    Five Sisters

    Yellow Crow

    Yellow Crow

    I Graduated, But...

    I Graduated,

    The Scent of Incense

    The Scent of

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    ABC Lifeline

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    The New Road

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    Wakarete iki

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    Hahakogusa

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    The Storm

    Where Chimneys Are Seen

    Where Chimne

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    Kinuyo Tanak

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    Marching On

    I Flunked, But...

    I Flunked, B

    Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?

    Where Now Ar

    Dragnet Girl

    Dragnet Girl

    Okayo's Preparedness

    Okayo's Prep

    Red Beard

    Red Beard

    Mama, I Need You!

    Mama, I Need

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    (Street of W

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    Osayo koisug

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    The Bride Ta

    Lullaby of the Earth

    Lullaby of t

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    The Loyal 47

    Ginza Cosmetics

    Ginza Cosmet

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    The Inner Pa

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    The Tree of

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    Tsukiyo no k

    The Lady of Musashino

    The Lady of

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    Marriage

    Geisha in the Old City

    Geisha in th

    Love Letter

    Love Letter

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    The Ataka Fa

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    The Fencing

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    The Genealog

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    Chikamatsu's

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    Victory Song

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    My Elder Bro

    On This Earth

    On This Eart

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    Lady Doctor

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    Song of the

    Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

    Kenji Mizogu

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    Men vs. Wome

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    Sisters of N

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    Sanbaba

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    Stepbrothers

    An Innocent Maid

    An Innocent

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    Young Lady

    A Hen in the Wind

    A Hen in the

    Women in Prison

    Women in Pri

    Ugetsu

    Ugetsu

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    Double Weddi

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    Sorrow Is On

    Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

    Tora-san's D

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    Air Raid of

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    Spring Thund

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    Confession

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    The New Road

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    The Blacksmi

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    Let's Go in

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    Let's Go, Gr

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    Mother and C

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    Kinuyo's Fir

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    Osaka Woman

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    Weeds with f

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    Okinu and Ba

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    Story of Lig

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    少年死刑囚

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    2022

    Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About

    asself (archive footage)

    2009

    The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka

    asSelf (archive footage)

    1976

    Lullaby of the Earth

    as

    1976

    Cape of the North

    asOld Nun

    1975

    Let's Go, Grandma!

    asKiku Sasaki

    1975

    Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

    as

    1974

    Sandakan No. 8

    asOld Osaki

    1974

    Sanbaba

    as

    1972

    Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

    asthe old family mistress

    1965

    Red Beard

    asMadame Yasumoto

    1964

    Kono sora no aru kagiri

    as

    1964

    The Scent of Incense

    asTsuna

    1963

    Bright Sea

    asNobuko Yazaki

    1963

    Alone Across the Pacific

    asYouth's Mother

    1963

    A Legend, or Was It?

    asShizuko Sonobe

    1963

    Double Wedding

    as

    1962

    Mama, I Need You!

    as

    1962

    The Fencing Master

    asOharu

    1962

    A Wanderer's Notebook

    asKishi, Fumiko's mother

    1961

    Wakarete ikiru toki mo

    asMichi's Mother

    1960

    Her Brother

    asMother

    1959

    The Three Treasures

    asPrincess Yamato

    1959

    Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka

    asMyokan

    1959

    Hahakogusa

    asShige Ozawa

    1958

    The Eternal Rainbow

    asFumi

    1958

    Equinox Flower

    asKiyoko Hirayama

    1958

    The Ballad of Narayama

    asOrin

    1958

    Sorrow Is Only for Women

    as

    1957

    On This Earth

    asOmitsu, Heiichiro's mother

    1957

    Geisha in the Old City

    asOei

    1957

    Stepbrothers

    asRie

    1957

    Yellow Crow

    asYukiko Matsumoto

    1956

    Flowing

    asRika Yamanaka / Oharu

    1956

    The Storm

    as

    1956

    Women in Prison

    asPrison Warden

    1956

    How Sorrowful

    as

    1956

    Confession

    as

    1955

    Forever a Woman

    asNeighbor's Wife

    1955

    Tsukiyo no kasa

    as

    1955

    少年死刑囚

    as

    1955

    (Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home

    asOshige

    1955

    The Moon Has Risen

    asYoneya

    1954

    The Woman in the Rumor

    asHatsuko Mabuchi

    1954

    Five Sisters

    as

    1954

    Sansho the Bailiff

    asTamaki

    1953

    Love Letter

    asLandlady

    1953

    An Heir's Place

    asHisa Hosho

    1953

    Ugetsu

    asMiyagi

    1953

    Where Chimneys Are Seen

    asHiroko Ogata

    1953

    Sincere Heart

    asKuniko

    1952

    Mother

    asMasako Fukuhara

    1952

    The Ataka Family

    asKuniko Ataka

    1952

    The Life of Oharu

    asOharu

    1952

    Sisters of Nishijin

    as

    1951

    Story of Lightning

    as

    1951

    The Lady of Musashino

    asMichiko Akiyama

    1951

    Miss Oyu

    asOyû Kayukawa

    1951

    Ginza Cosmetics

    asYukiko Tsuji

    1951

    The Inner Palace Conspiracy

    asOnaka

    1950

    The Munekata Sisters

    asSetsuko Munekata

    1950

    Wedding Ring

    asNoriko Kuki

    1949

    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

    asOiwa / Osode

    1949

    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

    asOiwa / Osode

    1949

    Flame of My Love

    asEiko Hirayama

    1948

    A Hen in the Wind

    asTokiko Amamiya

    1948

    Women of the Night

    asFusako Owada

    1947

    Phoenix

    asSayoko Aihara

    1947

    The Love of the Actress Sumako

    asSumako Matsui

    1947

    Marriage

    asFumie Matsukawa

    1946

    Utamaro and His Five Women

    asOkita

    1946

    Victory of Women

    asHiroko Hosokawa

    1945

    A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo

    asOkinu

    1945

    Victory Song

    asWoman who sings lullaby

    1944

    Miyamoto Musashi

    asShinobu Nonomiya

    1944

    Army

    asWaka

    1944

    The Man Who Has Returned

    as

    1943

    Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

    as

    1943

    Kaisen no Zenya

    as

    1942

    A Certain Woman

    as

    1941

    Record of a Woman Doctor

    as

    1941

    Ornamental Hairpin

    asEmi

    1941

    Flower

    as

    1941

    Let's Go in Good Spirits

    as

    1940

    Okinu and Banto

    as

    1940

    Osaka Woman

    as

    1940

    Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru

    asChiyo

    1940

    Kinuyo's First Love

    as

    1939

    Weeds with flowers

    as

    1939

    Zoku aizen katsura

    as

    1939

    Spring Thunder

    as

    1939

    Okayo's Preparedness

    asOkayo

    1938

    The Tree of Love

    asKatsue Takaishi

    1938

    Mother and Child

    asChieko

    1937

    Banchō sarayashiki

    as

    1937

    A Man's Recompense: Part 2

    as

    1937

    A Man's Recompense: Part 1

    as

    1937

    Lady Doctor Kinuyo

    asKinuyo Yamaoka

    1937

    Song of the Flower Basket

    asYoko

    1936

    The New Road: Ryota

    as

    1936

    The New Road: Akemi

    as

    1936

    Men vs. Women

    as

    1935

    Burden of Life

    asItsuko Kuriyama

    1935

    Okoto and Sasuke

    asOkoto

    1935

    An Innocent Maid

    asOshige

    1934

    My Elder Brother

    asSumako

    1934

    That Night's Woman

    as

    1934

    Osayo koisugata

    asOsayo

    1934

    The Genealogy of Women

    asOtsuta

    1933

    Sôbô

    as

    1933

    Dragnet Girl

    asTokiko

    1933

    Woman of Tokyo

    asHarue

    1933

    The Dancing Girl of Izu

    asKaoru, a dancer

    1933

    The Bride Talks in Her Sleep

    asHaruko, bride

    1932

    Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?

    asOshige

    1932

    The Loyal 47 Ronin

    asYae

    1931

    ABC Lifeline

    as

    1931

    The Neighbour's Wife and Mine

    asWife of the playwright

    1931

    Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

    as

    1930

    Young Lady

    asKinuko

    1930

    Youth, Why Do You Cry?

    as

    1930

    I Flunked, But...

    asCafe's waitress

    1930

    Marching On

    as

    1929

    I Graduated, But...

    asMachiko Nomoto

    1929

    The Life of Workers in the Big City

    as

    1929

    The Blacksmith of the Forest

    asOmitsu

    1928

    Riku no ôja

    as

    1928

    The Age of Emotion

    as

    1928

    The Village Bride

    as

    1926

    Karabotan

    as

    Coming Soon

    (52 episode)asTsuta