Minoru Takase Movies

Japanese movie

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

1945 Japanese movie

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...

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

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...

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...

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

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

1930s Japanese 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...

Japanese war-era film

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

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

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...

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

Japanese historical film. Considered Lost.