Kinuyo Tanaka Film Series

Fifth film in Kinuyo Tanaka Film Series.

The Moon Has Risen (1955): Kinuyo Tanaka. The most successful of Tanaka's six directorial efforts (and apparently, based on my forays into Tanaka chat rooms, a film still cherished by her diehard fans). Made in collaboration with Yasujiro Ozu, who composed the script, the film is a raucous domestic comedy about a widowed mother and her two daughters. Tanaka appears in a bit part as the family's maid.