Minoru Takase Movies

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...

Japanese historical film. Considered Lost.

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.

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...

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

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...

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

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

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...

In the midst of the depression, two ronin rack their brains to come up with a dishonest scheme. Taking a man from the countryside, they fashion him...

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

1945 Japanese movie

Japanese movie

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