Minoru Takase Movies

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.

An elderly man visits his mentally ill wife in a psychiatric hospital. Years earlier, she had tried to drown their child and then take her own life....

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

1930s Japanese film.

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

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...

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

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

Japanese movie

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

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

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

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

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...

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita