Junzaburō Ban Movies

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...

Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Teruhiko Saigo. Set in a wholesaler town in Osaka,...

When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a...

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

1962 Japanese movie

Manao Horiuchi movie

A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.

1962 Japanese movie

Half a Loaf... Avarice / Yoku

Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.

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

Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.

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

In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of...

Japanese crime film