With Lincoln Center’s Kinuyo Tanaka Retrospective, One of Japanese Cinema’s Best-Kept Secrets is Out

Imagine one of the world’s most famous actors, at the pinnacle of her fame globally and synonymous with a nation’s cinema during that industry’s golden age, directing a half dozen films—and half a century later, they were all but forgotten. Astoundingly, that’s exactly what happened with the six films helmed by renowned Japanese actor Kinuyo Tanaka between 1953 and 1962—and it’s something a new retrospective at Film at Lincoln Center is attempting to rectify.

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