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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kinuyo Tanaka has received more than 179,040 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Kinuyo Tanaka is the 1,360th most popular actor (up from 1,875th in 2019), the 533rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 745th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Japanese Actor.

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  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Kinuyo Tanaka ranks 1,360 out of 9,996. Before her are Casey Affleck, Otto Sander, Mira Furlan, Fredric March, Dita Parlo, and Innokenty Smoktunovsky. After her are Brion James, Walter Gotell, Frances de la Tour, Maria Bello, Christine Kaufmann, and Lionel Barrymore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Kinuyo Tanaka ranks 84. Before her are Franz Six, Malcolm Lowry, Guy de Rothschild, Lester Young, Bernd Rosemeyer, and Roberto Burle Marx. After her are Juan Carlos Onetti, Ryszard Siwiec, William M. Branham, Stavros Niarchos, Shigeo Shingo, and Edwin H. Land. Among people deceased in 1977, Kinuyo Tanaka ranks 71. Before her are Bruno Streckenbach, Kamal Jumblatt, Edmond Hamilton, Marien Ngouabi, Oskar Klein, and Jacques Tourneur. After her are Hanns Martin Schleyer, Edmund Veesenmayer, Shogo Kamo, Džemal Bijedić, John Edensor Littlewood, and James M. Cain.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kinuyo Tanaka ranks 533 out of 6,048. Before her are Kiyoo Kanda (1900), Norio Yoshimizu (1946), Shiro Teshima (1907), Gosho Aoyama (1963), Masayoshi Ōhira (1910), and Shigeru Mizuki (1922). After her are Yōsuke Matsuoka (1880), Emperor Junnin (733), Naoki Urasawa (1960), Mako (1933), Tokugawa Ieharu (1737), and Mariya Takeuchi (1955).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Kinuyo Tanaka ranks 16. Before her are Tatsuya Nakadai (1932), Masako Nozawa (1936), Ken Takakura (1931), Hibari Misora (1937), Machiko Kyō (1924), and Akiko Wakabayashi (1941). After her are Mako (1933), Sessue Hayakawa (1886), Momoko Kōchi (1932), Victoria Principal (1950), Shintaro Katsu (1931), and Mie Hama (1943).

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