Kinuyo Tanaka
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
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...Read more
Acting
(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
(1954) The Woman in the Rumor
as Hatsuko Mabuchi
(1951) Miss Oyu
as Oyû Kayukawa
(1947) The Love of the Actress Sumako
as Sumako Matsui
(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) Riku no ôja
as ---
(1945) A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
as Okinu
(1926) Karabotan
as ---
(1929) The Life of Workers in the Big City
as ---
(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 ---
(1959) The Three Treasures
as Princess Yamato
(1958) The Eternal Rainbow
as Fumi
(1937) Banchō sarayashiki
as ---
(1931) Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
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
(1931) ABC Lifeline
as ---
(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 ---
(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 koisugata
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 ---
(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 ---
(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) 少年死刑囚
as ---
(1970) Mominoki wa Nokotta
as Tsuta