The Million Ryo Pot (also known as Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryō (Japanese: 丹下左膳余話 百萬両の壺, Hepburn: Tange Sazen Yowa: Hyakuman Ryō no Tsubo)) is a 1935 Japanese jidaigeki comedy film directed by Sadao Yamanaka.

[1][2] The plot revolves around a pot, which contains the map to a treasure worth a million ryō, that is lost by its owner and comes into the possession of a young boy, who happens to be under the custody of the great rōnin swordsman Tange Sazen (played by Denjirō Ōkōchi).

[5] Genzaburo Yagyu, who is the adopted son-in-law of a dojo in Edo, received a seemingly worthless jar from his brother as a wedding gift not knowing that it contains the map of the whereabouts of a million ryo left by their ancestors.

The pot ends up becoming a fishbowl in the hands of Yokichi, the son of Shichibei, who lives next door from the scrap shop.

Meanwhile Genzaburo walks around Edo City in search of the jar and becomes attracted to Oku, who works in the archery booth.

Genzaburo later discovers the treasure jar’s location but decides to keep it from his wife Hagino because he doesn't want to be deprived of the freedom to leave the dojo.

It was Daisuke Itō who transformed Tange Sazen into a hero in his 1928 film, Shinpan Ōoka seidan (新版大岡政談).

Yamanaka transforms Tange Sazen further in this film, making him into a lazy, warmhearted, petulant hired swordsman who squabbles with his female keeper while doting on an orphan boy.