Minoru Takase Movies

An elderly man visits his mentally ill wife in a psychiatric hospital. Years earlier, she had tried to drown their child and then take her own life....

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

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

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.

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

1930s Japanese film.

Japanese war-era film

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.

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

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...

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

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