Junzaburō Ban Movies

Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.

Fifth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Tenth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

In the era of the twelfth Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, a notorious bandit known as "Shippu" (or "Swift Wind") emerged in Edo. Shippu would send a...

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.

Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.

Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the...

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...

1963 Japanese movie

A drama from director Masaharu Segawa.

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...

Comedy about two employees who work against their boss.

Comedy around a motorman and a conductor of a streetcar.

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

1967 Japanese movie

Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small...

The Nagasaki flagship store of a long-established castella bakery versus its Tokyo branch. Amid a sudden clash between the old and the new, a young...

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

Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relationship facilitated by his love of the shamisen....