Minoru Takase Movies

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,...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Japanese movie

Directed in 1921

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

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

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. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao

1930s Japanese film.

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

Directed by Mansaku Itami.