Junzaburō Ban Movies

Half a Loaf... Avarice / Yoku

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 16th "Ekimae" feature.

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

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...

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

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...

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

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...

Sabu, a low-ranking samurai, finds himself unable to apprehend the ruthless leader of a violent gang of thieves, which leads to a scolding from his...

Penultimate 23rd "Ekimae" comedy is about oil-field exploration.

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

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...