Kinuyo Tanaka
1) Dragnet girl
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
A no-nonsense gangster's moll is troubled by the growing attraction between her man and a virtuous woman.
Series
Criterion collection volume 386
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave drivers --
3) Ugetsu
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
日本語
Description
Set in 16th century Japan, a period of bloody civil war, the film is rooted in the postwar psyche of 1950s Japan. It focuses on an ambitious potter haunted by a beautiful ghost and a farmer who dreams of becoming a samurai.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
日本語
Description
In 17th-century Japan, a samurai's daughter, Oharu, falls in love with a servant. Caught together, the man is beheaded and Oharu and her family are exiled. After enduring further misfortunes as a concubine, a courtesan, wife, and prostitute, Oharu becomes a mendicant nun in her old age. A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout...
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