Kichijirō Ueda Movies

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives...

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...

Japanese film.

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter...

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

The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi.

There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and...

In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his...

1970 Toei movie.

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

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of...

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

A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the farmers transporting gold to the governor think they...

Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert.

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

Second movie in the Sakura Code series.