Kichijirō Ueda Movies

1962 Japanese movie

Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.

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

Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.

The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between father and daughters against the...

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

A modern love story involving different affairs.

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

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

1953 Hiroshi Inagaki movie.

1955 Japanese movie

Gensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was hesitant to get married because he had to feed his...

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.