Kinuyo Tanaka — Actor (82)
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The New Road: Ryota (1936) WikiData IMDb TMDB
新道　後篇・良太の巻
director: Heinosuke Gosho actor: Mitsuko Yoshikawa / Sozo Okada …
other title: 新道　後篇・良太の巻 / New Way: Ryota …
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the perspective of Ryota. In this second part, we learn that Akemi is pregnant...
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Young Lady (1930) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
お嬢さん
director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Sumiko Kurishima / Tokihiko Okada …
other title: お嬢さん / Mademoiselle …
Lost film. Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journalist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to investigate a secret club for wealthy voyeurs. Considered to be a lost film.
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Useless Button (1926) IMDb TMDB Douban
カラボタン
director: Hôtei Nomura actor: Tsuzuya Moroguchi / Yukiko Tsukuba …
other title: カラボタン / 衣领扣 …
A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over something trivial, and her wife runs away from home, causing a fuss, but she returns to normal. Selected by Kinema Junpo as the 5th-best Japanese movie of 1926.
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On This Earth (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB
地上
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / Hitomi Nozoe …
other title: 地上
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
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The Fencing Master (1962) IMDb TMDB
殺陣師段平
director: Shunkai Mizuho actor: Ganjirō Nakamura II / Raizō Ichikawa …
other title: 殺陣師段平 / 杀阵师段平
The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki swordfight choreographer, and as the Chairman of the New National Theatre Company, he wants nothing more than to choreograph the swordfights for the modern plays put on by the company.
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Let's Go in Good Spirits (1941) IMDb
元気で行かうよ
director: 野村浩将 actor: 佐野周二 / 上原谦 …
other title: 元気で行こうよ / 元気で行かうよ
In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means “waiter” literally. They are doing odd jobs in the company including serving tea, ushering visitors, buying tobacco, etc. Ordering lunch for the individual requests was also an important job. Those boys were hired often as soon as they graduated from elementary school.