Minoru Takase Movies

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a...

A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.

A lost film that tells a story of Jirokichi, a notorious thief

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...

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...

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

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

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

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...

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,...

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