Hitoshi Ueki Movies

Based on the non-fiction books by Takushi Ono (the NHK announcer, not the gymnast) and Yoshinari Tobe.

The last (10th) Toho "Crazy film" in the Nippon Ichi series.

An ad campaign for a TV show called the “Male Training Contest” stirs chaos at a major electronics company. PR staffer Takayama opposes...

Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.

After being mistaken for counterfeiters by the police an inventor and reporter try to track down the real counterfeiters.

The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retired from the team) for one last feature, Jun...

1962 Japanese movie

The Crazy Cats try to steal 1,000,000,000 yen in laundered Yakuza money.

The film depicts Ueki's all-around intelligence and how he manages to do difficult jobs for the company without a fixed salary and how he marries Mie...

Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong...

A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.

The fifth installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series.

Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.

1961 Japanese movie

A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countryside.

A 2003 version of the 1962 original. Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be...

It depicts a young man who challenges a 2600km traverse of Japan from Hidaka in Hokkaido to Kagoshima in Kyushu with Hokkaido horses.