Tag Archives: Kinuyo Tanaka

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Read More »

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken Read More »

Let’s Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story. Read More »

Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. Read More »

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a young, smart boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. Read More »

Fusako Owada, a young woman in postwar Japan, is the mistress of a notorious drug dealer. Read More »

The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, finding that she’s going Read More »

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family’s in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat. Read More »

In this adaptation from Kawabata, a young student becomes friends with a brother Read More »

A young boy has formed an idealized image of his father, who has yet to be repatriated from Russia. Read More »