Ken Uehara Movies

Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as the daughter-in-law of Koichi, the eldest son of...

Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san"...

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

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

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...

Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese captivity.

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

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

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...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

1962 Japanese movie

Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom...

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...