Minoru Takase Movies

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...

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

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

Directed by Kichiro Tsuji.

1930s Japanese 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...

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

Japanese movie

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

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

1945 Japanese movie

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

Japanese historical film. Considered Lost.

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

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...