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Kinuyo Tanaka

Biography

Kinuyo Tanaka was a prolific and highly regarded Japanese actress, remembered above all for the films she made with director Mizoguchi Kenji. She began in entertainment at fourteen, and her earliest known credit came with Shochiku's Genroku Onna in 1924. She stayed at that studio and became its leading actress. She also appeared in several films by Ozu Yasujiro. Aizen Katsu and Naniwa Onna were popular and seemed to mark the height of her fame, but her postwar work in The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953) and Sansho the Bailiff (1954) proved even more celebrated, and she gave another notable performance in The Ballad of Narayama (1958), a film drawn from Japanese tradition and folklore. She worked with Kurosawa Akira on Red Beard (1965), directed a number of films herself, and died in 1977.

Movie Career

Films
16
Career span
41 years1933 to 1974

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  1. Sansho the Bailiff1954 Dramaas Tamaki

    IMDb rating 8.320K votes

  2. Ugetsu1953 Drama, Fantasy, Waras Miyagi

    IMDb rating 8.129K votes

  3. The Life of Oharu1952as Oharu

    IMDb rating 8.08.5K votes

  4. The Ballad of Narayama1958as Orin

    IMDb rating 7.84.2K votes

  5. Equinox Flower1958as Kiyoko Hirayama

    IMDb rating 7.85.5K votes

  6. A Hen in the Wind1948as Tokiko Amamiya

    IMDb rating 7.42.3K votes

  7. Miss Oyu1951as Oyû Kayukawa

    IMDb rating 7.42.1K votes

  8. Women of the Night1948as Fusako Owada

    IMDb rating 7.21.7K votes

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Kenji Mizoguchi directed nine of these films, Yasujirô Ozu three and Keisuke Kinoshita two. Two actors appear in five of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.

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