Ken Uehara Movies

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...

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

Engineer Shuichi defies his wealthy family to live with bar hostess Kazuyo, whose loyalty to her struggling family complicates their love. As class,...

When a corrupt executive takes over his struggling company and violates his girlfriend, a young salaryman declares war, leaving his job to expose the...

Weed with Flowers

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

Romantic melodrama about the loves and adventures of Kageyama (Takarada) and his fellow oarsmen at Meikyo University.

A film by Toshio Sugie

The night in Ginza was shimmering with neon lights. A grand celebration was being held for the seventh anniversary of the club "Ayako." Among the...

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

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

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’...

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

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