Silent Poor

7.2

Satomi Ryo, a Community Social Worker (CSW) in the Shitamachi area, helps the poor and needy, including those with juvenile dementia, recluses, and the homeless. The government established the CSW role to address the…

Silent Summer of Love

7.3

Four years later, Xiao Heng is finally released from prison. He deliberately avoids Xia Shi Sheng, who came to pick him up. But Xia Shi Sheng refuses to run away—she senses that Xiao Heng’s imprisonment must have…

Silent Voice

7.5

People tell lies with words through their cerebral neocortex. However, the moment before a person speaks, the mental reflexes of the limbic system will be apparent. There is a police sergeant with the Tokyo Metropolitan…

Silent Shadow

7.3

Rachel meets Nathan, a gay man who later marries her due to family's pressure. Unhappy and trapped, Nathan plots his fake death and later undergoes to a sexual reassignment and face surgery in another country. Years…

Silent Tokyo: And So This Is Xmas

7.2

On Christmas Eve, a TV broadcasting station receives a phone call. The caller warns "I have set up a bomb at Ebisu in Tokyo." A contract worker for the TV broadcasting station and a housewife are accused by the Ebisu…

Silent Witness

7.6

Financial tycoon Lin Tai's daughter, Lin Meng Meng, becomes the suspect in the murder of her father's girlfriend, Yang Dan, a popular singer. Due to the celebrity nature of the case and scandals surrounding it, the…

Silent Sparks

6.7

Earnest and obedient, Pao helps his gangster boss “handle" all kinds of matters, constantly putting himself at risk in return for a bit of money to help with the family expenses. But deep down, Pao harbors a secret…

Silent Code

6.7

A reporter is tasked to find out information about the world's most popular internet forum, BBS. As she explores the internet world, she finds the danger and power these forums hold.

Silent Voice Season 2

7.2

Tateoka Ema is an interrogation specialist who uses behavioural psychology to make suspects confess and boasts a 100% success rate. She can see through the lies of suspects in a split second by reading their “micro-gestures”.…

Silent Rain

7.2

Yukisuke, a young bio-archeologist with a limp, gets to know Koyomi, a young woman, selling Taiyaki on the street, similar to Korean fish-shaped bun. He is fascinated by her and visits her stall often. The two talk…

Fujita Makoto

He was born in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, the son of silent-film actor Rintarō Fujima, and started his career as a comedian in 1952.Fujita appeared in both jidaigeki and contemporary roles. He starred as Nakamura Mondo, a samurai, in sixteen Hissatsu ("Kill") series on Asahi Broadcasting Corporation from 1973.…

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…

Wakamizu Midori

In 1910 (Meiji 43), he appeared as a female onnagata in a silent movie produced by Yoshizawa Shoten . At that time, even the director's credit was not given, and the appearance work is uncertain . In his last years (around the first year of the Showa era), he became paralyzed for some reason and seemed…

Chow Siu Loi

Chow Siu Loi is known for his work on The Suicide Murder (1974), The Silent Swordsman (1967) and Fist of Unicorn (1973). He was active from 1948-1982. (Source: IMDB)

Futagawa Buntaro

A specialist in jidai-geki, Futagawa is remembered largely for the silent films he made at Makino Productions in collaboration with popular action hero Tsumasaburō Bandō. Several of these survive: Kageboshi (Edo Kaizokuden: Kagebōshi, 1925) is admired for having introduced a greater psychological…

Yuki Ichiro

An actor whose career spanned only a short period; Yuki-san worked in silent film until just before 1940. Not much information exists about him in English, though he's a familiar face to classic film enthusiasts in Japan.

Jia Yi Ping

Jia Yi Ping is a Chinese actor. He won Best Newcomer Award for his performance in Silent River.

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…

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)…

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,…