Minoru Takase Movies

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

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.

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

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...

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

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

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

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...

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

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

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

Directed in 1921

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

1930s Japanese film.

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,...

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.