#Junzaburo Ban

[fuckyeahmeikokaji]

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子), Frankie Sakai (フランキー堺), Shiro Otsuji (大辻伺郎) and Junzaburo Ban (伴淳三郎) in Fabulous Swindlers (極道ペテン師), 1969, directed by  Koji Chino (千野皓司).

[byneddiedingo]

Dodes'ka-den (Akira Kurosawa, 1970)

Cast: Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Junzaburo Ban, Kiyoko Tange, Hisashi Igawa, Hideko Okiyama, Kunie Tanaka, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Ryo Sawagami, Yoko Kusunoki, Noboru Mitani, Hiroyuki Kawase, Hiroshi Akutagawa. Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto, based on a novel by Shugoro Yamamoto. Cinematography: Yasumichi Fukuzawa, Takao Saito. Art direction: Shinobu Muraki, Yoshiro Muraki. Film editing: Reiko Kaneko. Music: Toru Takemitsu. Akira Kurosawa's first film in color, Dodes'ka-den was a critical hit, earning an Oscar nomination for foreign language film, but a commercial failure, sending the director into a deep, near-suicidal depression. It's a curious grab-bag of stories of people living in a trash dump, their lives connecting only tangentially for the most part. It has the appearance of such post-apocalyptic films as Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006), Delicatessen (Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1991), Escape From New York (John Carpenter, 1981), Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho, 2014), Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1991), and The Bed Sitting Room (Richard Lester, 1969), though its setting is on the fringes of the actual 20th-century Japan -- apocalypse nigh, if you will. The title comes from what is perhaps its central figure, the mentally challenged Roku-chan (Yoshitaka Zushi), who is obsessed with streetcars and chugs through the dump chanting the nonsense words of the film's title, meant to be an evocation of the sound of the tram on the tracks.

[cultfaction]

Preview- A Fugitive From the Past (Bluray)

Preview- A Fugitive From the Past (Bluray)

Considered the magnum opus of the five decades-long career of Tomu Uchida (Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, The Mad Fox), the epic crime drama A Fugitive from the Past was voted third in the prestigious Kinema Junpo magazine’s 1999 poll of the Top Japanese Films of the 20th Century. In 1947, a freak typhoon sends a passenger ferry running between Hokkaido and mainland Japan plunging to the ocean…

[fieldcinema]

Dodesukaden, 1970 Dir. Akira Kurosawa

[nobrashfestivity]

Akira Kurosawa, Dodes’ka-den

Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1970 • Japan Starring Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Junzaburo Ban

[sonokedo]

Dodes’ka-den (1970), dir. Akira Kurosawa

[byneddiedingo]

Isao Sasaki and Kayoko Honoo in The Sun's Burial  (Nagisa Oshima, 1960)

Cast: Kayoko Honoo, Masahiko Tsugawa, Isao Sasaki, Fumio Watanabe, Katamari Fujiwara, Tanie Kitabayashi, Junzaburo Ban, Eitaro Ozawa. Screenplay: Toshiro Ishido, Nagisa Oshima. Cinematography: Takashi Kawamata. Production design: Koji Uno. Film editing: Keiichi Uraoka. Music: Riichiro Manabe.

A harrowing portrait of gangster life in Osaka, filmed with the kind of widescreen eloquence that Nagisha Oshima and cinematographer Takashi Kawamata brought to Cruel Story of Youth, made the same year. This is a cruel story of all ages in the Japanese underworld, with a remarkable performance by Kayoko Honoo as the ruthless young woman who survives (and perhaps thrives on) degradation.

[fuckyeahmeikokaji]

A press photo for Charlatan Gangster (極道ペテン師), 1969, directed by Koji Chino (千野皓司) and starring:

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) Frankie Sakai (フランキー堺) Shiro Otsuji (大辻伺郎) and Junzaburo Ban (伴淳三郎).

This was used to advertise the film being shown on Chiba TV in January.

http://fuckyeahmeikokaji.tumblr.com/

[fuckyeahmeikokaji]

Lobby card for Charlatan Gangster (極道ペテン師), 1969, directed by  Koji Chino (千野皓司) and starring:

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) Frankie Sakai (フランキー堺) Shiro Otsuji (大辻伺郎) and Junzaburo Ban (伴淳三郎).

Scanned by me.

http://fuckyeahmeikokaji.tumblr.com/