Junzaburō Ban Movies

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko...

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...

Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two...

Third sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

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

Japanese comedy film.

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

A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.

A comedic retelling of the legendary encounter between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamato Musashi.

The feudal lord Kisaragi Yae no Kami (Minami Komyo) searches for a child he had with a low-borne woman, that was sent away from his home 16 years ago...

Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the...

Based on the story "Tokyo Station" by Tsunehiko Sagawa.

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

Based on the comic by Machiko Hasegawa

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.

In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a tenement with his blind mother Okura. He works...