Minoru Takase Movies

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

An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to...

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...

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

Directed by Kichiro Tsuji.

Jirokichi the Rat is wanted in Edo for robbing the mansions of the rich. While on the run, he falls for Osen, a girl who has been sold to a brothel...

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.

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

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

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

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

Kinshiro takes over the family, but he thinks he is going to replace the son of his stepmother but runs into trouble when he befriends the yakuza.

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

1930s Japanese film.