Minoru Takase Movies

Japanese movie

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.

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...

Jirokichi the Rat is wanted in Edo for robbing the mansions of the rich. While on the run, he falls for Osen, a girl who has been sold to a brothel...

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

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...

A story about Kinsaburo Kamiya, who infiltrated the Satsuma clan at the end of the Edo period. Based on the novel "Satsuma Hikyaku" by Jiro Daibutsu,...

Directed by Kichiro Tsuji.

Directed in 1921

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

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

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

1930s Japanese film.

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