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.

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

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 war movie.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Japanese silent film from 1929.

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...

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...

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....