The best Junzaburō Ban’s action movies

Junzaburō Ban

Junzaburō Ban

10/01/1908- 26/10/1981
Today we present the best Junzaburō Ban’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Junzaburō Ban’s movies.

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 21/04/1971
  • Character: Muraki, car shop owner
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.

Flower and Dragon

Flower and Dragon
6.1/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 17/03/1973
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 other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill Tamai.

The Phoenix

The Phoenix
6/10
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.

The Greatest Man in the World

The Greatest Man in the World
6.7/10
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.

The Black Battlefront Kidnappers

The Black Battlefront Kidnappers
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 17/11/1973
  • Character: Chôtarô Funaki
A taut, economical policier-cum-gang-hostage thriller.

Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler

Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler
6.5/10
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.

Live and Learn

Live and Learn
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 27/01/1971
  • Character: Officer Sakashita
Tetsuko (Eiko Yanami), a high school student, one day, forces Tsuneo, (Kei Wakakura), the brightest boy in her school, to make love to her after school is out and they are caught by the old school janitor. Tsuneo's mother, orders Tetsuko to pay for what she did to her son but Tetsuko blackmails her instead, saying that she is ready to inform a news company of what has happened to Tsuneo and receives one million yen hush money. Expelled from school, she comes to Tokyo, intending to take a round-the-world trip. But Sankichi (Yoshihiko Aoyama), a jack-of-all-trades, cheats her. So, she makes up her mind to catch him and get back her money.

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