
Birthday
1909/11/28
Day of death
1977/03/21 (67 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
Also know as
다나카 키누요, کینو تاناکا
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 seventeen years old, appearing in Heinosuke Gosho's An Embarrassing Dream in 1927. She proceeded to take leading parts in, among others, Yasujirō Ozu's I Graduated, But... in 1929, Gosho's Aiyoku no ki in 1930, and in 1931, Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, directed by Gosho. She...Read more

(1976) Cape of the North
as Old Nun

(1954) Sansho the Bailiff
as Tamaki

(1974) Sandakan No. 8
as Old Osaki

(1958) Equinox Flower
as Kiyoko Hirayama

(1943) Kaisen no Zenya
as ---

(1952) Mother
as Masako Fukuhara

(1952) The Life of Oharu
as Oharu

(1947) The Love of the Actress Sumako
as Sumako Matsui

(1951) Miss Oyu
as Oyû Kayukawa

(1954) The Woman in the Rumor
as Hatsuko Mabuchi

(1956) Flowing
as Rika Yamanaka / Oharu

(1964) Kono sora no aru kagiri
as ---

(1950) The Munekata Sisters
as Setsuko Munekata

(1939) Zoku aizen katsura
as ---

(1963) Alone Across the Pacific
as Youth's Mother

(1948) Women of the Night
as Fusako Owada

(1944) Miyamoto Musashi
as Shinobu Nonomiya

(1946) Utamaro and His Five Women
as Okita

(1960) Her Brother
as Mother

(1949) Flame of My Love
as Eiko Hirayama

(1933) Woman of Tokyo
as Harue

(1947) Phoenix
as Sayoko Aihara

(1963) Bright Sea
as Nobuko Yazaki

(1941) Ornamental Hairpin
as Emi

(1953) Sincere Heart
as Kuniko
(1928) The Village Bride
as ---

(1928) King of the Land
as Namiko

(1945) A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
as Okinu
(1926) Useless Button
as ---
(1929) The Big City: Labor
as Okimi (cleaning woman)

(1958) The Ballad of Narayama
as Orin

(1962) A Wanderer's Notebook
as Kishi, Fumiko's mother

(1931) The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
as Wife of the playwright

(1933) The Dancing Girl of Izu
as Kaoru, a dancer

(1963) A Legend or Was It?
as Shizuko Sonobe

(1935) Burden of Life
as Itsuko Kuriyama

(1944) Army
as Waka

(1930) Youth, Why Do You Cry?
as Kozue Uesugi

(1959) The Three Treasures
as Princess Yamato

(1958) The Eternal Rainbow
as Fumi

(1937) Banchō sarayashiki
as ---

(1950) Wedding Ring
as Noriko Kuki

(1949) Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as Oiwa / Osode

(1949) Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as Oiwa / Osode

(1937) A Man's Recompense: Part 1
as ---

(1937) A Man's Recompense: Part 2
as ---

(1941) Flower
as ---

(1942) A Certain Woman
as ---

(2009) The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka
as Self (archive footage)

(1955) Forever a Woman
as Neighbor's Wife

(1955) The Moon Has Risen
as Yoneya

(1941) Record of a Woman Doctor
as ---

(1935) Okoto and Sasuke
as Okoto

(1953) An Heir's Place
as Hisa Hosho

(1946) Victory of Women
as Hiroko Hosokawa

(1954) Five Sisters
as ---

(1957) Yellow Crow
as Yukiko Matsumoto

(1929) I Graduated, But...
as Machiko Nomoto

(1964) The Scent of Incense
as Tsuna

(1936) The New Road: Akemi
as ---

(1961) Wakarete ikiru toki mo
as Michi's Mother

(1959) Hahakogusa
as Shige Ozawa

(1956) The Storm
as ---

(1953) Where Chimneys Are Seen
as Hiroko Ogata

(2022) Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About
as Self (archive footage)

(1930) Marching On
as Toshiko Yamamoto

(1944) The Man Who Has Returned
as ---

(1930) I Flunked, But...
as Cafe's Waitress

(1932) Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
as Oshige

(1933) Dragnet Girl
as Tokiko

(1939) Okayo's Preparedness
as Okayo

(1965) Red Beard
as Madame Yasumoto

(1962) Mama, I Need You!
as ---

(1955) (Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
as Oshige

(1934) Osayo Koi Sugata
as Osayo

(1933) The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
as Haruko, bride

(1976) Lullaby of the Earth
as ---

(1932) The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Yae

(1951) Ginza Cosmetics
as Yukiko Tsuji

(1951) The Inner Palace Conspiracy
as Onaka

(1938) The Tree of Love
as Katsue Takaishi

(1955) Tsukiyo no kasa
as ---

(1951) The Lady of Musashino
as Michiko Akiyama

(1947) Marriage
as Fumie Matsukawa
(1933) Sôbô
as Yoshiko Chō

(1957) Geisha in the Old City
as Oei

(1953) Love Letter
as Landlady
(1956) How Sorrowful
as ---

(1952) The Ataka Family
as Kuniko Ataka

(1962) The Fencing Master
as Oharu

(1934) The Genealogy of Women
as Otsuta

(1959) Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
as Myokan
(1928) The Age of Emotion
as ---

(1945) Victory Song
as Woman who sings lullaby

(1934) My Elder Brother
as Sumako

(1957) On This Earth
as Omitsu, Heiichiro's mother

(1937) Lady Doctor Kinuyo
as Kinuyo Yamaoka
(1940) Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
as Chiyo

(1937) Song of the Flower Basket
as Yoko

(1975) Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
as ---

(1936) Men vs. Women
as ---

(1952) Sisters of Nishijin
as ---

(1974) Sanbaba
as ---

(1957) Stepbrothers
as Rie

(1935) An Innocent Maid
as Oshige

(1930) Young Lady
as Kinuko

(1948) A Hen in the Wind
as Tokiko Amamiya

(1956) Women in Prison
as Prison Warden

(1953) Ugetsu
as Miyagi

(1963) Double Wedding
as ---

(1958) Sorrow Is Only for Women
as ---

(1972) Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
as the old family mistress

(1943) Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
as Kiyo

(1939) Spring Thunder
as ---

(1956) Confession
as ---

(1936) The New Road: Ryota
as ---

(1929) The Blacksmith of the Forest
as Omitsu

(1941) Let's Go in Good Spirits
as ---

(1975) Let's Go, Grandma!
as Kiku Sasaki

(1938) Mother and Child
as Chieko

(1940) Kinuyo's First Love
as ---

(1940) Osaka Woman
as ---

(1939) Weeds with flowers
as ---

(1940) Okinu and Banto
as ---
(1934) That Night's Woman
as ---

(1951) Story of Lightning
as ---

(1955) Shōnen shikeishū
as ---
(1924) A Woman from the Genroku Era
as ---

(1924) Village Pasture
as Oharu
(1925) The Little Traveling Entertainer
as Okiku
(1925) Cry of the Raging Current
as Okimi
(1925) Brave Love
as ---
(1925) The Killing of a Hundred Men at Isshinji Temple
as Otami
(1925) Nature Is the Judge
as ---

(1925) Fallen Samurai
as Omaki
(1925) Love's Snare
as Osato (Thread Shop Owner)
(1925) No Need for Your Opinion
as Daughter
(1926) Troubled Days
as Osaki (Reiko's Sister)
(1926) Townspeople
as ---
(1926) Oh! Carefree, Aren't You?
as ---

(1926) Young Master
as Tamako (Geisha in training)
(1926) Torrent
as ---
(1926) The Betrayed
as O-Fumi
(1926) Love and Courage
as ---
(1926) The Cursed Sword
as Owaka
(1926) The Complete Story of Jirocho Shimizu, Part 2: Ashura's Revenge
as ---
(1926) Her
as ---
(1926) Flashing Blade
as ---
(1926) Buried Youth
as ---
(1927) Secret Struggle
as ---
(1927) The Basement
as ---
(1927) Yakko no Koman
as ---
(1927) The Harakiri at Tennōji
as ---
(1927) Takada no Baba
as ---
(1927) An Embarrassing Dream
as ---
(1927) Magic
as ---
(1927) Song of the Border Patrol
as Tsutae
(1927) Madame Pearl
as ---
(1927) The Oath of a Thousand Kills
as Kaōgi (courtesan)
(1927) Sankichi the Flying Squirrel
as Oshizu (Tazaemon's daughter)
(1927) Night is a Trickster
as ---
(1927) Lovers' Suicide at Kiso
as ---
(1928) Modern Warrior Training
as ---

(1928) Chronicles of a Sea Country
as Oaki (sister)
(1928) If Only She...
as ---
(1928) Immortal Love
as ---

(1928) The Eternal Heart
as ---
(1928) Iron Virgin
as Namiko
(1928) What a Handsome Man!
as Shikanyu (geisha)
(1928) The Face of Humanity
as ---
(1928) A Wife Quits
as ---
(1928) Thank You for Your Hard Work
as ---

(1928) The Glory of the Shōwa Era
as Yayoi Sakurai (Shōwa chapter)
(1928) Symphony of Youth
as Kinuko Noguchi

(1930) Mother, Don't Tarnish Your Name
as ---
(1929) Echigo Lion
as ---
(1929) Him and Life
as ---
(1929) The Village Where the Skylark Sings
as ---
(1929) The Model of New Women
as ---
(1929) Cheerful Song
as Mamoko
(1929) Triumphant Song of the Mountain
as Yuki Matsuyama
(1929) The Father and His Son
as ---
(1930) The Beating
as ---
(1930) Song of Youth
as Kinuko Yamada

(1930) Where Do Women Go?
as Omitsu
(1930) A Smiling Life
as ---
(1930) The Big City: Explosion
as ---
(1930) The Great Ship
as ---

(1930) The Tale of Kinuyo
as Kinuyo

(1930) Record of Love and Desire
as ---

(1931) Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
as Mayumi

(1931) Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
as Mayumi
(1931) Cry Cheerfully!
as ---
(1931) Sisters: Part 1
as ---
(1931) Sisters: Part 2
as ---
(1931) The Tramp and His Daughter
as ---

(1931) ABC Lifeline: Fujieda Chapter
as ---

(1931) ABC Lifeline
as ---
(1931) Woman of Suffering
as ---
(1932) The Golden Demon
as Omiya

(1932) Victory or Defeat
as ---
(1932) My Brother's a Fool
as ---
(1932) The Willows of Ginza
as ---
(1932) The Sun Rises from the East
as Miyoko

(1932) Studio Romance: A Guide to Love
as ---

(1932) Shine, Japanese Women
as Shigeko
(1932) Love in Tokyo
as ---
(1932) Storm Zone
as ---
(1933) The Cheerleading Captain's Love
as Omitsu
(1933) Clear and Cloudy
as Fusako Kawahara
(1933) The Road to Marriage
as ---

(1933) Before the Wedding
as Yukiko Takada

(1933) Daphne
as Tamayō (Geisha)
(1934) Mother of the East
as Taeko
(1934) Sakura Ondo
as ---
(1934) Constellations on Earth, Part One: Earth Chapter
as ---
(1934) Constellations on Earth, Part 2: Constellations
as ---
(1934) Honeymoon
as ---
(1934) Storm in the City
as ---

(1970) Mominoki wa Nokotta
as Tsuta