Minoru Takase Filmes

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

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.

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

1945 Japanese movie

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

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

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...

Directed by Kichiro Tsuji.

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

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.

Directed in 1921

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.

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief

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