Hideo Takeda Movies

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...

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

Japanese silent film from 1927, based on a popular serialized novel by Kan Kikuchi.

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

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 hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over...

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...

Japanese silent film from 1930. The second chapter of "The Big City: Labor" (1929).

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

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

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

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

Japanese silent film from 1929.

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

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

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...