Ken Uehara Movies

Weed with Flowers

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was finally about to get married as a result...

Akiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro Hidaka's house. Hidaka, who is a poor musician suffers...

1962 Japanese movie

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan

During a packed game at Korakuen Stadium, Eagles’ star Tsubota faints, while singer Kyoko Tsukita collapses on stage at Cabaret Copacana. Goro...

1962 Japanese movie

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

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...

A love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo player against the backdrop of Japan in the...

A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that...

A film by Toshio Sugie

Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with the daughter of a wealthy trading company...

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.

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...

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

1947 Japanese movie

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...