Mary Walter

Mary Walter was a Filipina actress whose eight decade-long film acting career saw her transformation from a romantic lead in the silent film era into a wizened fixture in horror movies in the late 1980s and early 1990s. For her body of work accomplished in an especially long career, she was honored…

Ozu Yasujiro

Yasujiro Ozu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He began his career during the era of silent films. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s. Marriage and family, especially the relationships between the generations, are prominent themes…

Inagaki Hiroshi

A skilled and versatile filmmaker best known for his jidai-geki, Inagaki worked as an actor before directing. In the silent era, he narrated traditional stories with visual flair and melodramatic intensity: his extant second film, Vagabond Gambler (Hōrō zanmai, 1928), reveals his instinctive talent…

Chen Yan Yan

Chen Yan Yan was a Chinese actress and film producer in the cinema of the Republic of China (1912–1949), British Hong Kong and Taiwan. In 1932, she played the main role in the silent film "Springtime in the South". Her acting was well received by the audience, and she started gaining popularity, starring…

Irie Wakaba

Irie Wakaba is a Japanese actress from Minato-ku, Tokyo. She graduated from Bunka Gakuin, Department of Fine Arts. Her mother is Irie Takako, a popular actress from the silent film era. (Source: MyDramaList)

Saito Tatsuo

A prolific actor from the classic years of Japanese cinema. Saito Tatsuo is perhaps best known for featuring in the works of director Ozu Yasujiro, especially his early silent films. As time went on, Saito appeared less and less in this famous director's films, prompting questions as to why that linger…

Sogawa Ayana

Sogawa Ayana is a Japanese fashion model and actress under Pearl Dash. She graduated from the Faculty of Law, Aoyama Gakuin University. She was a member of the girl band "SILENT SIREN" from 2010 to 2012, where she played the keyboard. Ayana is an exclusive model for women's style magazine "GIANNA ".

Hayakawa Sessue

Kintaro Hayakawa , known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa, was a Japanese actor. He was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe. His "broodingly…

Okada Mariko

Okada Mariko is a Japanese actress. She was married to film director Yoshida Yoshishige, until his death in 2022. Her father was the noted silent film actor Okada Tokihiko, who before his early death (the year following his daughter's birth) starred in Ozu Yasujiro's Tokyo Chorus (1931). As an adult,…

Naruse Mikio

Mikio Naruse was a Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer who directed some 89 films spanning the period 1930 (towards the end of the silent period in Japan) to 1967. Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. He made primarily shomin-geki (working-class drama)…

Final Take

7.0

In the early 1930s, when silent movies were being replaced by talkies, Ogura has become famous for making popular flickers and comedies. His young assistant, Kenjiro, despises his practice and wishes to make art films.…

Samaritan

10.0

Midnight. An adept thief makes his silent way towards a rich couple’s walled compound. He has everything considered: the location of the street-light base to help him vault the perimeter, the vulnerable back gate,…

Jia Jia You Ben Hao Nian De Jing

When the social circles of parents and children "interconnect without barriers," when silent paternal love meets candid expression, and when the casual home visits of the younger generation encounter the social wisdom…

Lady Constables

8.5

Two female and one male (the strong, silent type) constables compete to recapture the Night-Shining Pearl, stolen by the Four Chiefs, who are lead by the treacherous Coldwater Tiger. (Source: IMDB)

Never-Ending Summer

Everyone at Yangming Middle School knew that Zhou Wan was introverted and silent, while Lu Xi Xiao was unruly. The two couldn't be more different. No one expected that one day, these two would stand together. (Source:…

Bengoshi Takamizawa Kyoko 5

Arrested on suspicion of murder, a sex worker admits to the crime but remains silent. Kyoko challenges the trial without knowing her name or motive for the crime. (Source: Japanese = TBS || Translation = MyDramaList)

Posthouse

6.5

A haunted film editor and his estranged daughter accidentally unleash a mythic creature while restoring an unfinished silent horror film. (Source: TMDb)

The Way We Talk

7.6

Three sincere deaf young people: Ji Seun comes from a deaf family, lives in a silent world, and is full of obstacles, but he lives with confidence in sign language. Sou Yan was implanted with cochlear implants since…

Yabusaka de wa Gozaimasen

7.1

The protagonist, Fushigi Mai, who works at the silent cafe "Morning Glory," and her colleague at the cafe, Kamishita Ryo, a younger man who has a close relationship with people, one day enter into a relationship where…

Katsuben!

7.7

Set at a movie theater in a small village around 100 years ago. Silent films are play at the movie theater. A young man wants to become a benshi (performer who provides live narration to silent films). (Source: AsianWiki)