Minoru Takase Filmes

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...

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...

Japanese war-era film

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...

Japanese movie

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

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

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

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

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...

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...

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

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

Directed by Daisuke Itō.