Minoru Takase Movies

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

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

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

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

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...

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

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,...

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...

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...

Directed by Kichiro Tsuji.

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

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.

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.

Directed in 1921

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

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

1945 Japanese movie