Movies: Minoru Takase

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife....

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 dead, Rikiya goes back home to his sister. Okiku, desperate to protect her brother who thinks himself a m...

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 into Ise Isenokami, the finest swordsman under the sun. Pretending to be his followers, they visit var...

A man gets rid of a cheap pot without knowing it contains a map to a treasure. As word spreads, many join in hunting it....

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A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events....

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

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi...

1930s Japanese film....

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The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass...

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....

Japanese war-era film...

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

This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip" is an 80-minute compilation of the first (東海道の巻 or "Tokaido no maki") and second (日本晴れの巻 or "Japan's Fin...

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Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita...

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

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

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