Ken Uehara Movies

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

Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Released alongside Invasion of Astro Monster.

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

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who...

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

1962 Japanese movie

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a...

The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan.

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

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

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’...

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...

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.

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.