The Season when the Town was Filled with the Voice of Silk Kinuyo Tanaka 1909-1977 Early Showa to Postwar Golden Age

The Season when the Town was Filled with the Voice of Silk Kinuyo Tanaka 1909-1977 Early Showa to Postwar Golden Age

Kinuyo Tanaka emerged as a leading actress as a daughter of Shochiku during the Showa era, a time when popular culture pulsated with movies and songs. Her role in "Izu no Odoriko" captured the original landscape of pure emotion, and her role in "Aizen Katsura" created a national craze as the theme song was played in the streets. Immediately after the defeat in World War II, his career stagnated due to the fall of values and the media, but he recovered with Kenji Mizoguchi's "Saikaku Ichidai Onna" and deepened his acting, which explores aging, emotions, oppression, and independence. In "Narayama Bushi Kekkou," she wears the weight of her body and struggles with ethics, and in "Koibun," her first film as a director, she captures the delicate psychology from a woman's point of view. While her contemporary Mieko Takamine led the era with her elegance and stage presence, and Fujiko Yamamoto embodied the image of a sophisticated heroine, Tanaka's affinity for dialect and sense of l
ife brought her close to the realities of the common people, and she carried the entire emotional bandwidth of the Showa era, from daughter to elderly woman, actor to director.