Kinuyo Tanaka
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Kinuyo Tanaka (田中絹代 Tanaka Kinuyo, 28 November 1910 - 21 March 1977) was a Japanese actress and director.
Tanaka was born in Yamaguchi, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Yasujiro Ozu's I Graduated, But... in 1929. Two years later she appeared in Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1931), directed by Heinosuke Gosho.
She played the title role in Kenji Mizoguchi's The Life of Oharu (1952) and Noboru Yasumoto's mother in Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard (1965).
External links
- Profile at Hanamo Web (http://hanami-web.com/eng/kinuyo_tanaka.htm)
- Choreography of desire: analysing Kinuyo Tanaka's acting in Mizoguchi's films by Chika Kinoshita (http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr1201/ckfr13a.htm)
- Kinuyo Tanaka's IMDb Listing (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849011/)
- Kinuyo Tanaka's JMDb Listing (in Japanese) (http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0293980.htm)