Kinuyo Tanaka
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kinuyo Tanaka (田中 絹代 Tanaka Kinuyo, 29 November 1909 – 21 March 1977) was a Japanese actress and director. Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Yasujirō Ozu's I Graduated, But... in 1929. The following year she played the lead in Aiyoku no ki, and in 1931 she appeared in Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, directed by Heinosuke Gosho. She had a close working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi, having parts in 15 of his films, including leading roles in The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953) and Sansho the Bailiff (1954). Their working relationship ended when Mizoguchi countered a recommendation from the Directors Guild of Japan for the Nikkatsu studio to hire her as a director. Despite this, the production of her second film as director went ahead, but Tanaka never forgave Mizoguchi, and the reasons for his behaviour are unclear. She also played Noboru Yasumoto's mother in Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard (1965). For her portrayal in Kei Kumai's Sandakan N° 8 she won the Best Actress Award at the 25th Berlin International Film Festival in 1975.[2] Her last screen appearance was in 1976 in Kei Kumai's Kita No Misaki. Tanaka was the second Japanese woman who worked as a film director, after Sakane Tazuko (1904‐1975). Her first directing job was on the film Love Letter in 1953, and she made five further films in that role. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kinuyo Tanaka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Red Beard
as Madame YasumotoAspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is...
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Ugetsu
as MiyagiIn 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of...
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Sansho the Bailiff
as TamakiIn medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was...
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Equinox Flower
as Kiyoko HirayamaWataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter...
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The Ballad of Narayama
as OrinIn Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of...
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The Life of Oharu
as OharuIn Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the...
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Forever a Woman
as Neighbor's wifeFumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her...
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Miss Oyu
as Oyû KayukawaShinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with...
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Sandakan No. 8
as Old OsakiA young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at...
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Her Brother
as MotherSet in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of...
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The Moon Has Risen
as YoneyaMokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
as Kishi, Fumiko's motherConsidered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook...
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The Three Treasures
as Princess YamatoThe legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to...
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
as uncreditedIn 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed...
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The Woman in the Rumor
as Hatsuko MabuchiYukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises...
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Women of the Night
as Fusako OwadaIn early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from...
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Mother
as Masako FukuharaA teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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A Hen in the Wind
as Tokiko AmamiyaTokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old...
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Woman of Tokyo
as HarueRyoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at...
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Ginza Cosmetics
as Yukiko TsujiA luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.
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The Munekata Sisters
as Setsuko MunekataSetsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She...
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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
as OshigeWhen a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three...
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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
as the old family mistressWhen Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor...
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Lullaby of the Earth
as uncreditedThe story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who...
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Flowing
as Rika Yamanaka / OharuOtsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter...
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Utamaro and His Five Women
as OkitaUtamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo...
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I Graduated, But...
as Machiko NomotoTetsuo Nomoto, a young graduated student tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he...
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A Legend, or Was It?
as Shizuko SonobeA Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry...
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Love Letter
as LandladyA sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love...
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The Scent of Incense
as TsunaAfter her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her...
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Flame of My Love
as Eiko HirayamaA woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo,...
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Dragnet Girl
as TokikoA gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his...
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The Fencing Master
as OharuThe Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as Oiwa / OsodeIemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot...
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The Lady of Musashino
as Michiko AkiyamaSet in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young...
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Alone Across the Pacific
as Youth's MotherKenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific...
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Army
as WakaThough plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as Oiwa / OsodePart 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
as Hiroko OgataWhere Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a...
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The Dancing Girl of Izu
as Kaoru, a dancer"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu...
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Ornamental Hairpin
as EmiA Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind...
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Yellow Crow
as Yukiko MatsumotoIn this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master...
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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
as MyokanThe adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is...
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Sincere Heart
as KunikoA young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see...
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Mama, I Need You!
as uncreditedAfter finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother...
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Wedding Ring
as Noriko KukiA jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
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Let's Go, Grandma!
as Kiku SasakiLet's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo...
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Young Lady
as KinukoTwo reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journaist,...
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The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
as Wife of the playwrightA playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he...
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
as Sumako MatsuiThe stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the...
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Burden of Life
as Itsuko KuriyamaA middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
as YaeThis 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed...
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I Flunked, But...
as Cafe's waitressThis bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their...
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Stepbrothers
as RieIn a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal,...
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Spring Thunder
as uncreditedEiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at...
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Victory Song
as Woman who sings lullabyHisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
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Bright Sea
as Nobuko YazakiOn the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian...
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A Man's Recompense: Part 2
as uncreditedSabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an...
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Women in Prison
as Prison WardenThe woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There...
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Miyamoto Musashi
as Shinobu NonomiyaThe first of five Musashi series, Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with the famous...
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Let's Go in Good Spirits
as uncreditedIn the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were...
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The New Road: Ryota
as uncreditedThe eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow...
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A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
as OkinuIn A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery...
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Phoenix
as Sayoko AiharaA Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.
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Men vs. Women
as uncreditedA musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of...
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Flower
as uncreditedMost of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families....
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Victory of Women
as Hiroko HosokawaRepresenting a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a...
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The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
as Haruko, brideThis pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife...
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On This Earth
as Omitsu, Heiichiro's motherKanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a...
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The Eternal Rainbow
as FumiTwo men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job,...
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Song of the Flower Basket
as YokoThree men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the...
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The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka
as Self (archive footage)Compilation of film footage documenting Japanese film star Kinuyo Tanaka's goodwill tour of the...
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An Innocent Maid
as OshigeIn a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of...
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The Storm
as uncreditedA widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
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The Inner Palace Conspiracy
as OnakaA period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of...
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Sisters of Nishijin
as uncreditedA family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
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Osaka Woman
as uncreditedFollowup film to Osaka Elegy - Osaka Woman
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Cape of the North
as Old NunA Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.
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Kaisen no Zenya
as uncreditedKempeitai fights American spies in Japan
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Sorrow Is Only for Women
as uncreditedThe beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who...
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Okinu and Banto
as uncreditedA story of a store that makes Tabi socks.
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Osayo koisugata
as OsayoThe poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head....
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Marriage
as Fumie MatsukawaIn postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in...
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The Ataka Family
as Kuniko AtakaSoichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with...
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Mother and Child
as ChiekoThe movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and...
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Kinuyo's First Love
as uncreditedKinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's...
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Record of a Woman Doctor
as uncreditedA group of female doctors travel to a remote village during their summer holiday to offer free...
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Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About
as self (archive footage)This documentary composed of numerous testimonies and archives, filmed in Japan highlights the...
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An Heir's Place
as Hisa HoshoThis film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of...
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Tsukiyo no kasa
as uncreditedHousewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in...
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My Elder Brother
as SumakoJyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the...
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Marching On
as uncreditedA farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real...
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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
as OshigeYoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is...
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A Certain Woman
as uncreditedPretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at...
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Banchō sarayashiki
as uncreditedshort film about Banchō Sarayashiki.
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Story of Lightning
as uncreditedGensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was...
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Okoto and Sasuke
as OkotoA period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her...
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The Genealogy of Women
as OtsutaA melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is...
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The Tree of Love
as Katsue TakaishiA young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret:...
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A Man's Recompense: Part 1
as uncreditedSabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an...
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Youth, Why Do You Cry?
as uncreditedA modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.
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The New Road: Akemi
as uncreditedThe eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow...
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Lady Doctor Kinuyo
as Kinuyo YamaokaKinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their...
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Okayo's Preparedness
as OkayoA young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the...
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Geisha in the Old City
as OeiDirected by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a...
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Mominoki wa Nokotta
as TsutaDepicting Date clan’s internal strife that occurred during a peaceful Edo period governed by the...
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