Junzaburō Ban Movies

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 esta...

The story of a ghostly thief in Edo who calls himself the fireball guy.

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances...

Half a Loaf... Avarice / Yoku

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

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

1962 Japanese movie

Tokyo at night. It has another face, different from the daytime. Gorgeous neon lights and dressed-up women decorate the city at night. And then, ther...

A comedy farce depicting the noise that occurs when two unemployed circus participants discover a debt bond in a basket with parrots, which they recei...

The film takes place in a dark area of the giant city of Osaka and tells about a group of people who find themselves at the bottom of society, and abo...

Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this high-action series that casts a new actor -- ma...

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...