Junzaburō Ban Movies

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her...

A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.

The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight...

Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.

A taut, economical policier-cum-gang-hostage thriller.

The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The...

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

After an old man is attacked by a bear in the snowy mountains of northern Japan, he vows to hunt down the marauder.

A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to...

An entertainment movie featuring familiar faces of Toyama no Kin-san, Nezumi Kozo, Yaji Kita, and others who traveled around the Tokaido. Written and...

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.

A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested by a detective. A year later, the gambler is...

1962 Japanese movie

Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real...