Minoru Takase Movies

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

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

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent...

Newly released from the army, five men return to Tokyo to find no place to live in the bombed-out city, food and necessities rationed out by people...

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.

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...

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

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

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

Japanese historical film. Considered Lost.

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

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...