Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

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...

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Based on the Nobu Koito story

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

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

That Night's Woman

1939 Japanese movie

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

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan

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...

When Ochika, from a rich family, marries Danpei, a poor shamisen player, she devotes herself completely to him and takes over her business, to the...

short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.

In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...