Hisao Yoshitani Movies

Japanese silent film from 1929.

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

Hirano's wife Yasuko had grown weary of her life of poverty. Her feelings of dissatisfaction deepened when she met her elegantly dressed friend...

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...

The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a...

Film about poet Ishikawa Takuboku

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he...

Two friends accidentally run into a young, homeless woman, so they take her in.

Lost silent film

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...