Kinuyo Tanaka Filmes

The first of five Musashi series, Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with the famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them swordsmanship to...

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

Japanese film from 1933, adapted from a story serialized in the entertainment magazine "Fuji."

Lost film. Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journalist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her...

short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.

Japanese film from 1934, based on a novel by Itsuma Maki (real name Kaitarō Hasegawa).

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling...

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.

A story about being scared of getting old.

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

Japanese war movie.

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...

Weed with Flowers

Gensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was hesitant to get married because he had to feed his...

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.

Japanese film from 1934, based on a novel by Itsuma Maki (real name Kaitarō Hasegawa).