Junzaburō Ban Movies

1963 Japanese movie

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

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tracks down one of her classmates fathers, who runs...

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...

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko...

A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.

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...

Japanese comedy film.

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

Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the...

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

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.

Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.