Minoru Takase Movies

Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare," aka Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, in...

A tragic period film about a gangster who comes out of prison and finds it hard to find a place again in society. Considered a lost film.

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

Jirokichi the Rat is a notorious thief. While on the run from the law, he discovers an unexpectedly honorable side of himself, and maybe some form of...

1945 Japanese movie

Yamanaka Sadao's fourth feature film. The Life of Bangaku

This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's...

A story about Kinsaburo Kamiya, who infiltrated the Satsuma clan at the end of the Edo period. Based on the novel "Satsuma Hikyaku" by Jiro Daibutsu,...

At the residence of a feudal lord in a mountain province, a young lord, accompanied by his vassals and courtiers, listens to the rokyoku singer...

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

1930s Japanese film.

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao