Minoru Takase Movies

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

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

A man gets rid of a cheap pot without knowing it contains a map to a treasure. As word spreads, many join in hunting it.

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

1930s Japanese film.

Japanese war-era film

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...

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

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...

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

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

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,...

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.

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

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...

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.