Junzaburō Ban Movies

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar...

The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight...

1962 Japanese movie

Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tracks down one of her classmates fathers, who runs...

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

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...

1963 Japanese movie

1957 Japanese movie

After an old man is attacked by a bear in the snowy mountains of northern Japan, he vows to hunt down the marauder.

1962 Japanese movie

Comedy around a motorman and a conductor of a streetcar.

Half a Loaf... Avarice / Yoku

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

Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relationship facilitated by his love of the shamisen....