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

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

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

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

1930s Japanese film.

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

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...

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

Japanese movie

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

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

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

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

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...

Japanese war-era film

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