Kichijirō Ueda Movies

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...

1953 Hiroshi Inagaki movie.

The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as an aggressive warrior, the battles he won until...

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an...

Japanese drama.

Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

1962 Japanese movie

Second movie in the Sakura Code series.

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-shogunate activities in Kyoto. A sinister plot to...

Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but...

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Second part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto.

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.

1961 Japanese movie

During the Tenpo era, the peasants of the Kanto region were in dire straits due to successive natural disasters. Maebashi's boss, Shiroganeya...

A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...