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.

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.

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...

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

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

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.

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

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...

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

Directed by Daisuke Itō.