Kinuyo Tanaka

Lullaby of the Earth

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is su…

Sandakan No. 8

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a b…

Kono sora no aru kagiri

The Scent of Incense

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth…

Double Wedding

A Legend, or Was It?

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the …

Bright Sea

On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for t…

Alone Across the Pacific

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to …

A Wanderer's Notebook

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu…