Minoru Takase Movies

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.

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.

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...

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

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

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

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

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

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...

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

1930s Japanese film.

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...