Minoru Takase

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

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...

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

Japanese war-era film

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,...

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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"...

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.

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

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

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

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.

1930s Japanese film.

Rinzou tries to pressure Gosuke into marrying his daughter, Osumi, to him to make up for his debts. In a chance encounter the father and daughter...

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

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.

Japanese historical film. Considered Lost.

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...

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

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

Japanese movie

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...

Directed by Kichiro Tsuji.

1945 Japanese movie