Acting

Yutaro Ban

Born

1937-02-22 (89)

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

Known for

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series

1983

Professional Killers poster
8.0

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...

Professional Killers

1972

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx poster
7.4

Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx

1972

Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman poster
6.8

Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering who the guilty parties are -- an accomplished Chinese martial artist named Wang Kang and his youthful attendant -- Zatoichi finds them and discovers that the pair's mixed up with a dangerous bunch of terrorist samurai who murdered the boy's parents. Now, Zatoichi must step in to save the day.

Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman

1971

Sword Devil poster
6.3

Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes the old man's pupil. Soon, Hanpei's skill of sword comes to attention of his lord. The lord orders him to assassinate a man...

Sword Devil

1965

Daimajin poster
6.5

A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.

Daimajin

1966

Film credits

1970s · 8 titles

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx poster
7.4

Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx

1972

Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman poster
6.8

Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering who the guilty parties are -- an accomplished Chinese martial artist named Wang Kang and his youthful attendant -- Zatoichi finds them and discovers that the pair's mixed up with a dangerous bunch of terrorist samurai who murdered the boy's parents. Now, Zatoichi must step in to save the day.

Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman

1971

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice poster
6.2

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. His first adventure sees him investigating his superior officer's mistress, whom he suspects of having ties with a reputed criminal on the loose.

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice

1972

The Assassination of Ryoma poster
4.8

Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), the imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and prepared the way for the Meiji Restoration (1868).

The Assassination of Ryoma

1974

Zatoichi in Desperation poster
6.7

After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the lady’s daughter’s freedom from a brothel - but this causes more problems than solves them.

Zatoichi in Desperation

1972

Death at an Old Mansion poster
6.3

A woman and her bridegroom are found murdered in their bed the day after their wedding. It had snowed overnight and the killer left no tracks. It is up to an amateur detective to figure out what happened. Carefully and systematically, he pieces together the clues in this locked room mystery.

Death at an Old Mansion

1975

Wakaki hi no kōdōkan poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wakaki hi no kōdōkan

1971

The Water Was So Clear poster
7.6

A Buddhist priest rescues a homeless girl and brings her into his temple's household. Soon she becomes an essential part of the place. One night she is raped by a young man who then becomes her lover. The priest happens on them one night as they make love before the temple shrine, and he becomes erotically obsessed.

The Water Was So Clear

1973

1960s · 22 titles

Sword Devil poster
6.3

Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes the old man's pupil. Soon, Hanpei's skill of sword comes to attention of his lord. The lord orders him to assassinate a man...

Sword Devil

1965

Daimajin poster
6.5

A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.

Daimajin

1966

The Hoodlum Priest poster
7.3

The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defiance of the local yakuza boss. Exciting action and a twisty plot this movie breaks new barriers in Japanese cinema. Katsu Shintaro is superb in one of his better non-Zato Ichi roles as he fights off the advances of a love-lorn woman and risks his life to defeat the powerful gambling boss who has a stranglehold on the town.

The Hoodlum Priest

1967

Return of Giant Majin poster
6.2

The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a memorial ceremony for the late Chigusa lord, Mikoshiba launches an attack, overthrowing the honorable Lord Juro. Just when all seems lost, Daimajin rises from Lake Yakumo to settle a score of his own.

Return of Giant Majin

1966

Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts poster
6.4

In feudal Japan, gangsters chase a young girl who might testify against their boss. When the gangsters murder the girl's grandfather on sacred ground, the door is opened for the Yokai Monsters to step in.

Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts

1969

Lefty Fencer poster
4.3

As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with her adopted family. One day, Okin saves a girl from a group of yakuza, and in doing so, gets involved in a grand conspiracy involving religious leaders, government officials, the yakuza and Lord Daizen-dayu, the man who killed her father and mutilated her body...

Lefty Fencer

1969

Prison Break poster
7.0

Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father’s murder. He then learns it was all a plot to take over his father’s turf and he seeks vengeance against the puppet master behind the entire conspiracy. His quest for justice leads him to prison where he must fend off the attack of a master assassin before he can make his escape and go after the true killer!

Prison Break

1969

Life of Matsu the Untamed poster
10.0

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Life of Matsu the Untamed

1965

A Certain Killer poster
6.9

A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.

A Certain Killer

1967

New Kurama Tengu: Gojozaka Duel poster
6.0

At the end of the Edo period in Kyoto, the ronin Kurayoshi Norizen rents the second floor of a hardware store and lives a carefree life, running a temple school. However, his true identity is Kurama Tengu, who appears to help a patriot in a difficult situation when he is attacked by the Shinsengumi, and then disappears like smoke.

New Kurama Tengu: Gojozaka Duel

1965

Sleepy Eyes of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay poster
5.1

Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involved in a series of dangerous encounters.

Sleepy Eyes of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay

1969

Devil's Temple poster
6.8

An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women, and a vicious killer. Bloody violence erupts whenever strangers approach the temple. Can the traveling priest bring his belief in the Buddha and rid the three temple residents of the devils that hold their souls?

Devil's Temple

1969

Blood End poster
6.3

Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a leader in the Mito Tengu group, which plans to overthrow the shogunate.

Blood End

1969

Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare poster
6.4

When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him.

Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare

1968

Broken Swords poster
8.0

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the vile Lord Kira.

Broken Swords

1969

The Thieves' Who's Who poster
8.5

In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person.

The Thieves' Who's Who

1966

Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom

1966

The Funeral Racket poster
7.0

The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.

The Funeral Racket

1968

Haunted Castle poster
6.7

A young woman turns to the supernatural to wreak revenge on a murderous warlord.

Haunted Castle

1969

Hoodlum Soldier: Looting and Pillaging poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hoodlum Soldier: Looting and Pillaging

1968

Tokyo Gambler poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tokyo Gambler

1967

Girl with Bamboo Leaves poster
10.0

Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.

Girl with Bamboo Leaves

1969

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