Ken Uehara Movies

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes...

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

1956 Drama by Toshio Sugie

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.

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

Ken Uehara plays the role of a prominent figure in the red-light district and portrays his violent personality.

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

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

Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in...

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

After running away from her mother, Ashiko works as a maid at an inn and changes her name, but she finds herself torn between her past and a new...

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

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 anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort.

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

A melodrama in which two lovers reunite after a long journey through life.

A Japanese film

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...

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...