Minoru Takase Movies

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

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

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

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...

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...

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

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

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,...

Japanese movie

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...

Japanese historical film. Considered Lost.

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

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...

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

Japanese war-era film

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.

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.