Junzaburō Ban Movies

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...

A mayoral candidate and his love child.

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

A broke romantic and a practical young woman are pulled apart by money, matchmaking, and meddling families — only to find their way back to...

#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to...

Japanese comedy film.

1950 drama film

The 14th film in the Ekimae series, set in Nagano Prefecture, focusing on the love lives of a group of husbands and their wives.

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...

Eighth in the Ekimae series, portraying competition between two hot spring resort owners in Yamanashi.

The Wolf of Davao, a death row inmate who escaped from prison to exact revenge on Yamanami Takuzo, who betrayed his former comrade, kidnaps Dr....

Apparently a baseball drama starring real-life stars Nagashima (The Babe Ruth of Japanese Baseball) and teammate Oh-known collectively as ON-from the...

Isshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved the maid Onatsu from punishment after she...

1957 Japanese movie