Junzaburō Ban | Actor | Actress

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Junzaburō Ban

Junzaburō Ban (伴淳三郎 Ban Junzaburō, January 10, 1910 – October 26, 1981) was a Japanese comedian and actor. His real name was Hirosada Suzuki (鈴木寛定 Suzuki Hirosada). Born : 10th-Jan-1908

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Dodes'ka-den

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 circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
Released : 1st-Oct-1970

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Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler

Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this high-action series that casts a new actor -- martial arts legend Sonny Chiba -- in the role of Nami's loyal friend Ryuji. This time around, Nami is looking for Hoshiden, the man who murdered her father and shattered her once-hopeful childhood. But living under an assumed name, Hoshiden could stay hidden forever.
Released : 25th-Oct-1972

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Kaoyaku

A detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.
Released : 12th-Aug-1971

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A Fugitive from the Past

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.
Released : 15th-Jan-1965

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The Greatest Man in the World

In the midst of the depression, two ronin rack their brains to come up with a dishonest scheme. Taking a man from the countryside, they fashion him into Ise Isenokami, the finest swordsman under the sun. Pretending to be his followers, they visit various sword fighting dojo. Out of fear upon hearing the name Isenokami, they pay him off and do not let him enter their training halls. The impostor eventually comes face to face with the real Isenokami after rescuing his daughter, Oyae, who is caught up in a minor incident.
Released : 14th-Jan-1932

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Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess

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 an auto repair shop that the local Yakuza are trying to force out of business and take over, and starts working for him. At the same time a recently released from prison, and now ill Yakuza is trying to make a new life for himself and his girl, a friend of Reiko's, who also just graduated from reform school. A fateful car crash brings the two on a collision course with each other and the brutal Yakuza clan, which can only end bloody vengeance.
Released : 28th-Apr-1971

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Konto 55: Grand Outer Space Adventure

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.
Released : 20th-Dec-1969

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Story of Second Class Private, Sequel

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Released : 18th-Mar-1956

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The Unbalanced Wheel

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
Released : 3rd-Jul-1957

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Why Not?

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.
Released : 8th-Jan-1981

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The Sun's Burial

In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.
Released : 9th-Aug-1960

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Shag

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.
Released : 31st-Mar-1978

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Private Second Class

First film in a series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku.
Released : 15th-Nov-1955

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The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen

A quintessential example of the period "ghost cat" (bakeneko or kaibyo) movie, this was one of at least six such titles released by the studio Shinko Kinema between 1937-40 featuring Japan's first scream queen, Sumiko Suzuki. Here she plays Mitsue, the possessive onna-kabuki actress betrothed to apprentice shamisen player Seijiro. When one day Okiyo, a beautiful young girl of samurai class, is led to Seijiro's house by his lost cat Kuro, she becomes besotted with him. Dark jealous passions are invoked in Mitsue, which are intensified when Seijiro gifts Okiyo his precious shamisen. The cat is the first to suffer at the end of Mitsue's hairpin, but returns from the grave to assist Okiyo's younger sister Onui avenge her sister's murder.
Released : 2nd-Nov-1938

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The Old Bear Hunter

After an old man is attacked by a bear in the snowy mountains of northern Japan, he vows to hunt down the marauder.
Released : 25th-Jan-1982

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The Phoenix

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai, represented by Prince Susano-O and elderly advisor Sumuke, hire Yumihiko of Matsuro to hunt the phoenix so that Queen Himiko, sister of Susano-O can have eteranal life.
Released : 12th-Aug-1978

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Botchan

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Released : 14th-Jun-1958

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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze

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 schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.
Released : 1st-Jun-1968

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The Gambling Nun

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 gambling and challenges the racketeer threatening to sell the place to a game.
Released : 7th-Sep-1971

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Farewell to Spring

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.
Released : 28th-Apr-1959

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Firefly Light

Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small inn in the Kyoto suburb of Fushimi. She does not have an easy life. Her husband, Isuke (Ban Junzaburo), is a wastrel who fancies himself a kabuki singer and who is obsessed with cleanliness. Her mother-in-law, Sada (Miyoshi Eiko) dislikes her because of her humble origins (her family are farmers) and because she fears that she will inherit the inn instead of Sugi, her daughter. Sada's hopes for Sugi, however, are dashed when she runs off with a con artist and leaves her child behind for Tose to take care of. When Sada becomes seriously ill, it is Tose who nurses her. On her deathbed, Sada asks her daughter-in-law's forgiveness. Meanwhile Isuke spends most of his time with a mistress he has taken, forcing Tose to manage the inn by herself
Released : 18th-Mar-1958

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Dimple of Tokyo

Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san" (the president) run away from the job. Nobuko took Buntaro to her home and introduced him to her own family as friend, "Sachio-san"...
Released : 15th-Jul-1952

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続二等兵物語　決戦体制の巻

Third sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Released : 26th-Mar-1957

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Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki

Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Released : 20th-Apr-1958

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Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki

Fifth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Released : 28th-Dec-1958

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Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki

Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Released : 19th-Apr-1959

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Pfc. Story - The Divine Tempest

First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Released : 9th-Oct-1959

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Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines

First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Released : 1st-Apr-1960

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Shin nitōhei monogatari medetaku gaisen no maki

Second "Pfc. Story" sequel and the ninth and final sequel to "Story of Second Class Private", the only one in both series not directed by Seiichi Fukuda.
Released : 15th-Jan-1961

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続二等兵物語　南方孤島の巻

Second sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Released : 13th-Jul-1956

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娘十八びっくり天国

Japanese comedy film.
Released : 29th-Feb-1952

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大当りパチンコ娘

Japanese comedy film.
Released : 15th-Jan-1952

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A Smell of Money

Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.
Released : 5th-Dec-1965

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Furimuita hanayome

Japanese comedy film.
Released : 16th-Sep-1961

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For Love and Money

Released : 24th-Dec-1963

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Tokyo Profile

A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the crowded streets of Ginza.
Released : 8th-Jul-1953

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How to Make a Big Hit

Japanese comedy film.
Released : 5th-Mar-1968

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Queen Bee

To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several generations must be sorted out once and for all.
Released : 11th-Feb-1978

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Nonsense Boys

Japanese comedy film.
Released : 1st-Jun-1963

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珍説忠臣蔵

A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1953

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Road to Hawaii

A 1954 film.
Released : 14th-Sep-1954

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Snow in the South Seas

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
Released : 29th-Sep-1961

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A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance

Released : 17th-Jun-1967

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There Was a War When I Was a Child

An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.
Released : 14th-Feb-1981

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Love and Death

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 circumstances, they try to not act on their attraction. However, as time goes by, they realise that, perhaps, they cannot be without each other. Will the forbidden love affair move forward and can they finally be with each other?
Released : 5th-Jun-1971

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Parole

Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.
Released : 21st-Oct-1967

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A Country Boss

A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.
Released : 25th-Jan-1962

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Drunkard's Paradise

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 focuses on why people drink alcohol.
Released : 4th-Feb-1962

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My Wife

Japanese comedy film.
Released : 16th-May-1965

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浮かれ狐千本櫻

Japanese comedy film.
Released : 28th-Dec-1954

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Rainbow Over the Pacific

Rainbow Over the Pacific is a tale of romance that moves from the streets of Tokyo to the islands of Hawaii as it weaves the story of two star-crossed lovers--Hideo (Yukio Hashi), an aspiring photographer from Japan, and Reiko (Jun Mayuzumi), a beautiful Sansei Cherry Blossom contestant from Hawaii--who are drawn together by destiny, yet appear to be fated to be apart. Will the sun set on their young love, or will it be the dawn of a new relationship?
Released : 27th-Apr-1968

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TV Credits

寺内貫太郎一家

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Released : 17th-Jan-1974

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いちばん星

父・英三郎 - The 19th NHK Asadora. A dramatization of the life of the singer Chiyako Sato. Michiko Godai replaced Haruna Takase in the lead two months into the series when Takase became ill. Adapted from the novel "Aa Tokyo Koshinkyoku" by Yuki Ryoichi.
Released : 4th-Apr-1977

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佐武と市捕物控

- Fuji drama specials based on the eponymous manga by Shotaro Ishinomori.
Released : 31st-Jul-1981

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