In search of a star: Kinuyo Tanaka

Document author(s):

William Johnson

Document source:

Film Comment

Publication date:

1/1/1994

Document language:

English

Document type:

article

Number of pages:

7

Document name subject:

Kinuyo Tanaka

Related films:

• Madamu to nyôbô (The neighbor's wife and mine) — Gosho, Heinosuke — Japan — 1931
• Koi no hana saku Izu no odoriko (The dancing girl of Izu) — Gosho, Heinosuke — Japan — 1933
• Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna (Utamaro and his five women) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1946
• Josei no shôri (The victory of women) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1946
• Oyû-sama (Miss Oyu) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1951
• Saikaku ichidai onna (The life of Oharu) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1952
• Koibumi (Love letter) — Tanaka, Kinuyo — Japan — 1953
• Chibusa yo eien nare (The eternal breasts) — Tanaka, Kinuyo — Japan — 1955
• Tsuki wa noborinu (The moon has risen) — Tanaka, Kinuyo — Japan — 1955
• Narayama bushiko (Ballad of Narayama) — Kinoshita, Keisuke — Japan — 1958
• Onna bakari no yoru (Girls of the dark) — Tanaka, Kinuyo — Japan — 1961
• Ogin-sama (Love under the crucifix) — Tanaka, Kinuyo — Japan — 1962

Film country(ies):

Japan

Film language(s):

Japanese

Film production company:

Daiei Motion Picture Co. Ltd., Koi Productions, Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha, Shintoho Company Ltd., Shochiku Kabushiki Kaisha, Toho Kabushiki Kaisha, and Tokyo Eiga Company

Film genre(s):

Adaptation, Biographical, Crime, Drama, Fallen woman, Family, Feature, Historical, Legal, Melodrama, Romance, Social problem, and Women

Film subject(s):

• Aged -- Japan -- Family relationships -- Drama
• Aged women -- Japan -- Drama
• Artists -- Japan -- Drama
• Artists' models -- Japan -- Drama
• Family life -- Japan -- Drama
• Filicide -- Japan -- Drama
• Fukasawa, Shichiro, 1914- . Narayamabushi ko -- Film and video adaptations
• Ihara, Saikaku, 1642-1693. Koshoku ichidaionna -- Film and video adaptations
• Infanticide -- Japan -- Drama
• Japan -- Social life and customs -- Drama
• Kitagawa, Utamaro, 1753?-1806 -- Drama
• Kunieda, Kanji, 1893-1956. Utamaro -- Film and video adaptations
• Lawyers -- Japan -- Drama
• Prostitutes -- Japan -- 17th century -- Drama
• Prostitutes -- Japan -- Drama
• Rites and ceremonies -- Japan -- Drama
• Tanizaki, Junichiro, 1886-1965 -- Film and video adaptations
• Trials (Murder) -- Japan -- Drama
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Japan -- Drama
• Widowhood -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Drama
• Widows -- Japan -- Drama
• Women -- Japan -- Drama
• Women -- Japan -- Social conditions -- 17th century -- Drama
• Women -- Japan -- Social conditions -- 1946 -- Drama
• Women lawyers -- Japan -- Drama

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