Tag Archives: Kinuyo Tanaka

Two of Japan’s finest actors, Kinuyo Tanaka and Toshiro Mifune, come together in this touching seaside melodrama Read More »

Ryoichi and Chikako are brother and sister. They live together. Read More »

Tokiko is an office typist who is more pleased at catching the owner’s son attention than he knows. Read More »

A story of a college student (Tatsuo Saitô) and his schoolmates trying to pass the exams by cheating. Read More »

Adopted from a prize-winning school essay on the subject of ‘My Mother,’ upon being widowed a mother with Read More »

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband’s return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. Read More »

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. Read More »

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Read More »

A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Read More »

The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Read More »