Minoru Takase Movies

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

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.

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

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...

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare," aka Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, in...

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

Japanese movie

1930s Japanese film.

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

At the residence of a feudal lord in a mountain province, a young lord, accompanied by his vassals and courtiers, listens to the rokyoku singer...

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...

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,...

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

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

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

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

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.