Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo

Sadao Yamanaka, Nikkatsu, 1935. Tange Sazen (Denjirō Ōkōchi), the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman, gets tangled with a cheap pot that hides a map to a million ryo, plus a kid, a couple, and a clan that wants the pot more than anyone needs it. Yamanaka treats jidaigeki as comedy about greed. Of his small surviving group this is the one that still plays as a crowd picture. National Film Archive of Japan. The pot is uglier than the treasure, which is the gag.