Minoru Takase Movies

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

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

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

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

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

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.

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...

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

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

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

Newly released from the army, five men return to Tokyo to find no place to live in the bombed-out city, food and necessities rationed out by people...

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.

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,...