Hideo Takeda Filmes

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

The Japanese debut film of silent-era star Sessue Hayakawa, in which he not only starred but directed.

Japanese film from 1933, adapted from Masao Kume's serialized newspaper novel.

Japanese film from 1933, adapted from a story serialized in the entertainment magazine "Fuji."

Tsukamoto and Omitsu are close friends, but one day, Tsukamoto becomes fascinated by Ayako, whom he meets at the home of Miyajima.

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.

Japanese war movie.

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

Japanese silent comedy from 1930. The directorial debut of Hiromasa Nomura.

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...

Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.