FEATURE: From movie star to forgotten director, Kinuyo Tanaka rediscovered in France

She was one of Japan's biggest movie stars, worked with its most revered directors and quietly became one of its first female filmmakers. Yet Kinuyo Tanaka's work as a director was largely forgotten in Japan -- and rediscovered decades later in France.That rediscovery began with a simple question."Do you know of any female Japanese film directors?" a major film distributor asked in 2020. The inquiry reached a Japanese film expert in France who suggested Tanaka, a figure better known for acting than directing.Tanaka (1909-1977) was a central figure in Japan's golden age of cinema, appearing …READ FULL ARTICLE