Ken Uehara Movies

Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football.

1962 Japanese movie

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’...

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

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

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

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...

1956 Drama by Toshio Sugie

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

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

The third and final chapter of MP & GI's Toho Trilogy expands the geographical reach of the franchise, taking stars Lucilla You Min and Takarada...

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.

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

An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort.

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...

A lighthearted comedy featuring city dwellers flocking to a remote mountain hot spring inn, all entangled in the mystery of hidden gold bars.