Minoru Takase Movies

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

Japanese movie

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

After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent...

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

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...

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

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...

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

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.

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

1945 Japanese movie

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

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