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Kinuyo Tanaka
Kinuyo Tanaka was a Japanese actress who appeared in over 250 films in her career spanning seven decades. She also became the second female Japanese director with the release of her film Love Letter in 1953. She was known for her versatility and powerful performances in films such as The Life of Oharu and Sansho the Bailiff.
Titles credited to Kinuyo Tanaka
山椒大夫
In medieval Japan, a woman and his children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
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雨月物語
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare....
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楢山節考
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members...
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彼岸花
A man clashes with his daughter over her choice of fiancé.
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風の中の牝鶏
Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prost...
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非常線の女
A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.
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東京の女
Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.
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靑春の夢いまいづこ
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
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落第はしたけれど
This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things don't work out for our roguish main character, but h...
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