Junzaburō Ban Movies

Set in a bustling 1950s parlor, a beautiful counter clerk falls for a wealthy businessman’s son, only to have their romance derailed by a...

Two travelers (Makoto Fujita and Minoru Shiraki) travel the Tokaido road and meet the famous Jiro Shimizu and have many comedic adventures.

In a provincial Japanese town, an entrepreneurial sanitation collector is drawn into the world of local politics, only to discover that the...

Japanese comedy film.

The 11th "Ekimae" feature.

Period comedy.

Half a Loaf... Avarice / Yoku

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that...

Film directed by Keigo Kimura.

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

A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to...

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

Saito Torajiro directed this light comic musical about the lives and loves of three cheerful, lively young men on the R University Rugby Club, Toshio...