Movies: Minoru Takase

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

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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 entertain and amuse the national troops. Inside this rocket would be tiny performers. Once launched f...

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi...

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Directed in 1921...

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

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 redemption. Considered a lost film....

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita...

Directed by Mansaku Itami....

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....

1930s Japanese film....

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...

Japanese movie...

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

At the residence of a feudal lord in a mountain province, a young lord, accompanied by his vassals and courtiers, listens to the rokyoku singer Toraizo at a leisurely pace. The title of the play is "Notes of Lord Mito's Travels. This play caused grea...

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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...

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....