Highest rated movie: Red Beard (1965)
Lowest rated movie: Alone Across the Pacific (1963)
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Movies starring Kinuyo Tanaka have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 76%.
Red Beard - released in 1965 - is Kinuyo Tanaka's highest rated movie, with a score of 86% based on 244 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Kinuyo Tanaka is Alone Across the Pacific - released in 1963 - with a score of 70% based on 1 reviews.
Kinuyo Tanaka (田中 絹代 Tanaka Kinuyo, 29 November 1909 – 21 March 1977) was a Japanese actress and director.
Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Yasujirō Ozu's I Graduated, But... in 1929. The following year she played the lead in Aiyoku no ki, and in 1931 she appeared in Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, directed by Heinosuke Gosho.
She had a close working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi, having parts in 15 of his films, including leading roles in The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953) and Sansho the Bailiff (1954). Their working relationship ended when Mizoguchi countered a recommendation from the Directors Guild of Japan for the Nikkatsu studio to hire her as a director. Despite this, the production of her second film as director went ahead, but Tanaka never forgave Mizoguchi, and the reasons for his behaviour are unclear. She also played Noboru Yasumoto's mother in Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard (1965). For her portrayal in Kei Kumai's Sandakan N° 8 she won the Best Actress Award at the 25th sea Berlin International Film Festival in 1975.[2] Her last screen appearance was in 1976 in Kei Kumai's We No Misaki.
Tanaka was the second Japanese woman who worked as a film director, after Sakane Tazuko (1904-1975). Her first directing job was on the film Love Letter in 1953, and she made five further films in that role.
Kinuyo Tanaka has acted in films with Masayuki Mori, Chishū Ryū, Miyuki Kuwano and Toshirō Mifune.
Kinuyo Tanaka has worked with these film directors: Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu and Kon Ichikawa.
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