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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 199,339 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 23 in 2019). Kinuyo Tanaka is the 1,602nd most popular actor (down from 1,358th in 2019), the 646th most popular biography from Japan (down from 531st in 2019) and the 21st most popular Japanese Actor.

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  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Kinuyo Tanaka ranks 1,602 out of 13,578. Before her are Luis Guzmán, Marianne Sägebrecht, Eddie Fisher, Mustafa Nadarević, Lorenzo Lamas, and Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. After her are Victor Mature, Lucélia Santos, Tracy Morgan, Robert Davi, Sridevi, and John Hillerman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Kinuyo Tanaka ranks 100. Before her are Atsushi Nakajima, Adib Shishakli, Guy de Rothschild, Attilio Demaría, Ryszard Siwiec, and Sigmund Rascher. After her are Héctor José Cámpora, Juan Bosch, Marie-Thérèse Walter, C. N. Annadurai, Nelson Algren, and Harro Schulze-Boysen. Among people deceased in 1977, Kinuyo Tanaka ranks 86. Before her are Hamazasp Babadzhanian, Henry Tandey, Carl Zuckmayer, James M. Cain, Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani, and Giorgio Pessina. After her are Marie-Thérèse Walter, Delmer Daves, Shogo Kamo, Jacques Tourneur, Alexander Rodimtsev, and Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kinuyo Tanaka ranks 646 out of 6,245. Before her are Sen Katayama (1859), Ogata Kōrin (1658), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Yasuo Haruyama (1906), Masaharu Homma (1888), and Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (1933). After her are Takashi Murakami (1962), Kiyoshi Tomizawa (1943), Iwakura Tomomi (1825), Sōsuke Uno (1922), Hōnen (1133), and Takeo Takagi (1892).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Kinuyo Tanaka ranks 21. Before her are Victoria Principal (1950), Momoko Kōchi (1932), Hibari Misora (1937), Masako Nozawa (1936), Ken Takakura (1931), and Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (1933). After her are Machiko Kyō (1924), Mayumi Tanaka (1955), Shintaro Katsu (1931), Mie Hama (1943), Meiko Kaji (1947), and Sho Kosugi (1948).

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