Cast: Junzaburo Ban

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Yoshitaka Zushi · Kin Sugai · Kazuo Katô · Junzaburo Ban

Synopsis Episodes from the lives of a group of Tokyo slum-dwellers: Rokkuchan, a retarded boy who brings meaning and routine to his life by driving an imaginary streetcar; children who support their parents by scrounging or by tedious and ill-paying endeavours;...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Kayoko Honjo · Isao Sasaki · Kamatari Fujiwara

Synopsis In Osaka's slum, youth 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...

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Reiko Oshida · Nobuo Kaneko · Junzaburo Ban · Yumiko Katayama

Synopsis Juvenile delinquent Rika gets released from the reform school and ends up protecting the debt-ridden father of her friend from local gangsters.

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Frankie Sakai · Eitarô Matsuyama · Junzaburo Ban

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Akira Ishihama · Ineko Arima · Keiji Sada

Synopsis Five young men, close friends since high school, reunite in their hometown after having been away for many years. This brief respite brings back their fond memories of earlier, simpler lives, yet all are eventually forced to admit that there...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kyôko Enami · Mikio Narita · Makoto Satô · Nobuo Kaneko

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Junzaburo Ban · Mitsuko Mito · Kinshirô Matsumoto · Hiroko Ito

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Makoto Fujita · Minoru Shiraki · Hajime Hana · Yu Fujiki

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Chieko Baisho · Jin Nakayama · Junzaburo Ban · Ichirô Arishima

Direction Mansaku Itami

Cast Shuichiro Atsumi · Junzaburo Ban · Chiezô Kataoka · Michisaburo Segawa

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Muga Takewaki · Jiro Tamiya · Hideki Takahashi · Tetsuya Watari

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Meiko Kaji · Sonny Chiba · Shingo Yamashiro · Yukie Kagawa

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Sumiko Fuji · Bunta Sugawara · Keiko Yumi · Junzaburo Ban

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Yukio Hashi · Jun Mayuzumi · Muga Takewaki · Etsuko Ikuta

Synopsis 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...

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Junzaburo Ban · Frankie Sakai · Mitsuko Mori

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Noboru Andô · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kayo Matsuo · Jūzō Itami

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

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Jin Nakayama · Casey Takamine · Mitsuko Baisho

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Frankie Sakai · Daisuke Kato · Junzaburo Ban

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Frankie Sakai · Junzaburo Ban · Chikage Awashima

Synopsis A longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Hitomi Nozoe · Chikage Awashima · Junzaburo Ban