Junzaburō Ban Movies

During the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar, crossed swords with the Magistrate Kurobane Yatayu, who...

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

Japanese crime film

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...

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

A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a...

A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in...

At the transformed Fumaden (Demon Subduing) Temple, with the dynamic efforts of Sukesan and Kakusan, and the appearance of the heroic woman Oshin,...

Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar...

A parody of the Kabuki play about thieves, "Five Men of the White Waves".

A mayoral candidate and his love child.

A group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence, embark on a lively and poignant societal comedy. They...

Seventh in the Ekimae series, detailing the exploits of the landladies around Ryogoku Station in Tokyo, and their sumo clientele.

Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.