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Filmmaker · Japan

Kinuyo Tanaka

Died in 1977

Kinuyo Tanaka was born on 29 November 1909 in Shimonoseki. Entering the cinema in 1924, she appeared in more than two hundred and fifty films, in particular under the direction of the greatest directors of her country. In 1953, she moved into directing and made six films until 1962, which made her the second woman filmmaker in Japan; Shintōhō and several filmmakers supported her, despite the hostility of one of her former mentors. She died in Tokyo on 21 March 1977.

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