Ken Uehara Movies

Japanese war movie.

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

1962 Japanese movie

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to...

Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing...

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause...

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura