Ken Uehara Movies

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

Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing t...

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for...

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with...

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.

A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a ni...

A modern love story involving different affairs.

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. His parents run a sukiyaki restaurant back in his h...

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

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their hon...

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

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

Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese captivity.

In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Ka...