Minoru Takase Movies

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

Japanese movie

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

Japanese war-era film

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...

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...

Japanese historical film. Considered Lost.

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.

1945 Japanese movie

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

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.

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...