Manuel Silos

Manuel Silos was an award-winning Filipino film-maker from the 1920s through the 1950s. He began his career by making silent movies together with his brothers. As a bodabil (vaudeville) actor and comedian, Silos used the stage and screen name Santo Tulia. He became known for his FAMAS-awarded film Biyaya…

Innami Hiroshi

Innami Hiroshi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter from Hiroshima. He excelled in modern contemporary drama in the era of silent cinema. He died from tuberculosis at the age of 37. (Source: Japanese Wikipedia)

Jose Nepomuceno

José Zialcita Nepomuceno was one of the pioneering directors and producers of Philippine cinema. He is also known as the "founder of Philippine movies", and he had his own production company Jose Nepomuceno Productions. He produced the first Filipino silent film entitled Dalagang Bukid in 1919. Nepomuceno…

Saito Shiko

Saito Shiko, born in Kobe, was a Japanese actor. He made his debut in silent movies in 1925

Suzuki Kensaku

Suzuki Kensaku was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Yokohama. He was active in the Nikkatsu contemporary drama during the silent film era. He became a film director at the Komatsu Shokai Takadanobaba studio after being involved in the recording of performances at the Nippon Phonograph…

Jason Mewes

Jason Mewes is an American actor, comedian, film producer and podcaster. He is best known for playing Jay, the vocal half of the duo Jay and Silent Bob, in longtime friend Kevin Smith's films.

Monang Carvajal

Monang Carvajal was a Filipina film actress best known for her roles in thriller and horror movies. She was dubbed the "Queen of Horror Pictures." Carvajal made her film debut in 1920, in the silent film El Trust de los Tenorios. (Source: Wikipedia)

Jose Padilla Jr.

José Padilla Jr. was a Filipino actor who appeared in several dozen movies. He made his first movie in 1931, a silent horror film called Ang Multo sa Libingan. Padilla also represented his country as a lightweight boxer during the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States, in 1932 and the…

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…

Chin Feng

Chin Feng was born in 1928 in Hong Kong as Fang Rui. He is an actor and assistant director, known for The Silent Love (1971), A Comedy of Mismatches (1964) and Year of the Dragon (1985). (Source: IMDB)

Handscape

7.4

Contemporary Shanghai, summer. Xia Qing, a boy who has been wearing hearing aids due to hearing loss, has a deep love for dancing. He gains so much joy just from copying Martha Graham’s hand gestures in a dance magazine.…

The Ghost Story of the Snow Witch

7.5

A master and his apprentice dare to go into the woods in search of the perfect tree for the sculpting of the new Goddess statue for the temple, but they end up being forced to spend the night in a deserted house in…

Aruku Hito

7.9

Whoever takes the time these days to climb a tree in bare feet? To stop and observe the comings and goings of the birds? To play in the puddles after the rain has gone? To return a shell to the sea? The Walking Man…

Please, Stop

6.3

A story about a younger brother's secret crush on his older brother—who only has eyes for girls. For the older brother, this love is a "happy trouble"; but for the younger one, it’s a silent storm. (Source: 我们的秘密…

Delivered

6.6

The last thing that introverted freelance designer Yun Oh could've expected was that going to receive a package that he didn't even remember ordering would kick off his relationship with the chatty delivery man Tae…

Love and Crown

6.6

In the Great Qi dynasty, young Emperor Xiao Huan assumes the alias Bai Chi Fan and draws close to Ling Cang Cang, daughter of the Grand Tutor, to reclaim power from him and the Empress Dowager. Cang Cang, the brave…

Vacation of Love

7.3

Xu Ke Yi, an accomplished manager, brings her artist Gao Jun Yu to a resort for a New Year's Eve performance, hoping for more than a professional relationship. However, disappointment follows. While seeking solace…

Seisaku's Wife

7.3

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty. Upon her husband’s sudden death, she withdraws to her small…

Spring Tide

7.2

The film centers around a single mother in her 40s named Guo Jian Bo, who struggles to deal with the emotional demands of her mother and daughter. Coming from three different generations, each woman has her own pain…

The Lost Choices

7.3

Ji Eun has a speech disorder after losing her parents in a car accident. Nevertheless, she tries hard to overcome her handicap and dreams to become a graphic designer. One day, on her way back home, she gets kidnapped…