Eclipse Series 48: KINUYO TANAKA DIRECTS: The Moon Has Risen (1955)
TANAKA, Kinuyo (Japan)
The Moon Has Risen [1955]
Eclipse Series 48
Blu-ray
Eclipse Series 48
Blu-ray
For her second film, Kinuyo Tanaka directed a script by legendary filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, one of her mentors. Though informed by Ozu’s singular take on familial relationships, The Moon Has Risen also possesses Tanaka’s lively and elegant comic sensibility in its portrait of a widower (Chishu Ryu) who lives with his three daughters (Hisako Yamane, Yoko Sugi, and Mie Kitahara). Kitahara shines as the spirited youngest sister, whose matchmaking schemes force the family to confront—with amusing bewilderment—Japanese society’s rapidly evolving mores.
102 minutes
Black & White
Black & White
Monaural
in Japanese
1:37:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2026
Directors/Writers
Kinuyo Tanaka was 46 when she directed The Moon Has Risen.
Screenplay by Yasujiro Ozu and Ryosuke Saito.
Other Tanaka films in the Collection:
The Film
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