Silent Japan

I got interested in Japanese silent cinema, so I figured I would watch a bunch of silent films and review them, and also read up on pre-1940 Japanese filmmaking and write some articles about them.

• I: The One Per-Cent (link)
• II: The Lack of Realism (link)
• III: Flunky, Word Hard (1931, d. Mikio Naruse) (link)
• IV: Apart from You (1933, d. Mikio Naruse) (link) 
• V: Who is Mikio Naruse? (link)