Minoru Takase Movies

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 telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief

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...

Rinzou tries to pressure Gosuke into marrying his daughter, Osumi, to him to make up for his debts. In a chance encounter the father and daughter...

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

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

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...

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

1945 Japanese movie

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

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

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,...

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

Japanese historical film. Considered Lost.

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...

Japanese war-era film

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

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.