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Kinuyo Tanaka

1909 - 1977

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Kinuyo Tanaka (Japanese: 田中 絹代, Hepburn: Tanaka Kinuyo; 29 November 1909 – 21 March 1977) was a Japanese actress and film director. She had a career lasting over 50 years with more than 250 acting credits, but was best known for her 15 films with director Kenji Mizoguchi, such as The Life of Oharu (1952) and Ugetsu (1953). With her 1953 directorial debut, Love Letter, Tanaka became the second Japanese woman to direct a film, after Tazuko Sakane. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kinuyo Tanaka is the 2,117th most popular actor (down from 1,601st in 2019), the 823rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 646th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Japanese Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Kinuyo Tanaka ranks 2,117 out of 13,578Before her are Zac Efron, Philip Michael Thomas, Tyne Daly, Allison Janney, Melissa McBride, and Catherine Keener. After her are Clive Revill, Bruce McGill, Sarah Douglas, Dove Cameron, Brenda Vaccaro, and John Hillerman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Kinuyo Tanaka ranks 134Before her are Morris Swadesh, André Cayatte, Dean Rusk, Milena Pavlović-Barili, Marie-Thérèse Walter, and Hendrik Casimir. After her are Ben Webster, Sylvère Maes, Guy de Rothschild, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, and Aenne Burda. Among people deceased in 1977, Kinuyo Tanaka ranks 104Before her are Miloš Crnjanski, Ba Maw, Pan Yuliang, Ronnie Van Zant, Marie-Thérèse Walter, and Isaac Boleslavsky. After her are Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Jim Thompson, Sergei Kruglov, Richard Carlson, Hanns Martin Schleyer, and Son Ngoc Thanh.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kinuyo Tanaka ranks 823 out of 6,245Before her are Tadashi Yanai (1949), Donald Tsang (1944), Isamu Chō (1895), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), and Prince Koreyasu (1264). After her are Hasui Kawase (1883), Ashikaga Yoshihide (1538), Goro Shimura (1930), Akira Nishino (1955), Ryōkan (1758), and Takako Shimazu (1939).

Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Kinuyo Tanaka ranks 21Before her are Masako Nozawa (1936), Machiko Kyō (1924), Momoko Kōchi (1932), Hibari Misora (1937), Akiko Wakabayashi (1941), and Shintaro Katsu (1931). After her are Mayumi Tanaka (1955), Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (1933), Kōji Yakusho (1956), Sho Kosugi (1948), Mie Hama (1943), and Akihiro Miwa (1935).