Ken Uehara

Flower Season (1990)

Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as the daughter-in-law of Koichi, the eldest son of the Kitamori family, Hana entrusts everything to Yuki, but wants her entire family to come see her on her bir ...

Actress (1987)

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

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983)

Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third-year junior-high-school student. One day, while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has the power to travel through time. ...

Young Girls Are Everywhere (1966)

Campus A Go-Go (1965)

Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Released alongside Invasion of Astro Monster. ...

Atragon (1963)

The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World War II Captain has created the greatest warship ever seen, and possibly the surface world's only defense. ...

Crazy Operation: Drop Dead! Irresponsibility (1963)

Seven employees rise up in rebellion against an irresponsible company. ...

Young Guy in Hawaii (1963)

Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in Hawaii. ...

Chûshingura (1962)

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

College Champ (1962)

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 hometown. When his allowance stops coming in, Yuuichi moves back in with his folks to work part-time. He ha ...

Pig and Goldfish (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Operation Sewer Rats (1962)

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

Whirlpool of Love (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Gorath (1962)

In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn ...

Long Way to Okinawa (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Pride of the Campus (1962)

Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing tournament. ...

The Last War (1961)

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers. ...

Blood on the Sea (1961)

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot. ...

Mothra (1961)

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the ...

Sir Galahad in Campus (1961)

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

A Night in Hong Kong (1961)

Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who meets and falls in love with Wu Li Hung (Ming). He proposes to Wu Li but she rejects him because of her dis ...

Nocturne of a Woman (1961)

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 nightclub. He sets her up with her own nightclub, but with expectations attached. ...

University Bandits (1960)

A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a lodge during a blizzard. This ski action romp has the tempo of a musical, and Okamoto Kihachi's style is o ...

Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960)

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family. ...

The Storm of the Pacific (1960)

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in t ...

Tokyo Omnibus (1959)

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 a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of ...

Someday I'll Know (1959)

A modern love story involving different affairs. ...

Musume no boken (1958)

Bright Young Maidens (1958)

In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical school newsletter and attempts to find a suitable lodger who will catch the eye of her daughter. ...

All About Marriage (1958)

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

Holiday in Tokyo (1958)

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being noticed. But she is spotted and the press has a field-day with the ...

The Precipice (1958)

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year's Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu's brother works. ...

Demon King of Yoja Manor (1957)

During a packed game at Korakuen Stadium, Eagles' star Tsubota faints, while singer Kyoko Tsukita collapses on stage at Cabaret Copacana. Goro Hayatori, deputy director of Hayatori Hospital, grows suspicious of Akuri, founder of the new religion "Reihi-kyo ...

Chikaiteshi (1957)

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2 (1957)

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

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1 (1957)

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

Untamed Woman (1957)

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 success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality. ...

Sound in the Mist (1956)

In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Kazuhiko's wife Kazuyo comes to see them and confronts the professor about his extramarital affair, and Tsur ...

Love on Rainbow Island (1956)

Japanese counterpart to Romeo and Juliet ...

Undercurrent (1956)

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor. ...

The President Talks Bank (1956)

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements. ...

A Rainbow at Every Turn (1956)

Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom they have not had. While Asako is a sweet young lady, Momoko, the eldest, goes out with whomever she wants, thus ...

The President's Boss (1956)

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter. ...

The First Kiss (1955)

Portmanteau film about young lovers. ...

Nonki saiban (1955)

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crim ...

Fantasy of Youth (1955)

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi. ...

A Woman's Life (1955)

The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan. ...

Mother's First Love (1954)

A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man. ...

Late Chrysanthemums (1954)

What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved, and become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days coldly collecting debts. Even her best friends, fellow Geisha Tomi, Nobu, and Tamae, are now indebted to he ...

Sound of the Mountain (1954)

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman. ...

Made in Japan (1953)

A love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo player against the backdrop of Japan in the early post-war period, where new customs and old traditions mix. ...

White Fish (1953)

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon the wife and the son are left without an update of his status and whether he is alive or not. With the clini ...

A Japanese Tragedy (1953)

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that ...

Wife (1953)

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is ...

Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953)

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo. ...

Husband and Wife (1953)

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife. ...

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete (1952)

Dimple of Tokyo (1952)

Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san" (the president) run away from the job. Nobuko took Buntaro to her home and introduced him to her own family ...

A Ripple in a Morning (1952)

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

Farewell to Spring (1952)

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura ...

Wedding March (1951)

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa ...

Repast (1951)

In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's young and flirtatious cousin arrives for a brief stay to escape an arranged marriage. ...

Tsuki yori no haha (1951)

Japanese drama film. ...

The Singing Baseball Kid (1951)

A musical comedy about a spirited orphan who forms a youth baseball team and gets caught up in a mix of sports, singing, and crime when he tries to return a star player's lost money. ...

The Man Without a Nationality (1951)

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa ...

Elegy (1951)

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his disciple Uchiyama and his best friend prosecutor Daisuke Toki accused his music as a sesame of pause-only techniq ...

Nightshade Flower (1951)

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi. ...

Shojohou (1950)

A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that has endured the winds and snow of love! Eisuke Taniguchi (Shimizu), president of Towa Electric Works, has th ...

Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950)

A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness. ...

The Munekata Sisters (1950)

Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. But now he's back and Mariko tries to reunite them, although s ...

When We Came Back (1950)

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki ...

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 (1949)

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke. ...

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 (1949)

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband. ...

Ningen moyo (1949)

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president. ...

Kekkon Sanjûshi (1949)

The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow (1948)

Akiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro Hidaka's house. Hidaka, who is a poor musician suffers from tuberculosis, feels an unbearable love for Akiko, who takes great care of him during his visits. Becaus ...

365 Nights (1948)

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and decides to marry her. Only to discover that his father is is in debt and wants him to marry Ranko so that s ...

A Flower Blooms (1948)

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her. ...

Golden Devil Part 2 (1948)

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2 ...

Golden Devil (1948)

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil ...

Kokoro tsuki nogotoku (1947)

1947 Japanese movie ...

Marriage (1947)

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat. ...

Tengoku no hanayome (1945)

1945 Japanese movie ...

Soyokaze (1945)

Victory Song (1945)

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

Army (1944)

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

You Are the Next Eagle (1944)

A boy aviator endures rigorous training and a sad fate, and grows into a strong man with his eyes set on becoming an eagle. ...

Jubilation Street (1944)

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye. ...

The Living Magoroku (1943)

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness. ...

Port of Flowers (1943)

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' plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita's directorial debut is a breez ...

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane (1943)

Japanese war movie. ...

Kaisen no Zenya (1943)

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan ...

Sumida River (1942)

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big stars like Hasegawa or Bando. "Sumidagawa", named after the river that runs through Tokyo, is also a period ...

The Spy Has Not Died Yet (1942)

Flower (1941)

Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes marriage but whose mother harbours ill feeling towards her because of an incident in the mountains where a ch ...

Let's Go in Good Spirits (1941)

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 "waiter" literally. They are doing odd jobs in the company including serving tea, ushering visitors, buying tobacco, etc. O ...

Notes of an Itinerant Performer (1941)

Uta's mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller's life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street performance ...

Weeds with flowers (1939)

Weed with Flowers ...

Zoku aizen katsura (1939)

1939 Japanese movie ...

A Brother and His Younger Sister (1939)

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers. ...

Okayo's Preparedness (1939)

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

Women at War (1939)

Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to make a film about her. She was scouted to become an actress, but she held strong. Around that time, her adop ...

Family Diary (1938)

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' families, and all is well. Then the disagreements start... ...

The Tree of Love (1938)

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run away to Kyoto, but her child suddenly became sick and she just missed the train and Kozo. She makes it to K ...

The Lights of Asakusa (1937)

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protec ...

The Trio's Engagements (1937)

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

Vermilion and Green (1937)

A businessman's daughter falls in love with one of her father's employees. ...

What Did the Lady Forget? (1937)

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to ...

The New Road: Ryota (1936)

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 perspective of Ryota. In this second part, we learn that Akemi is pregnant... ...

The New Road: Akemi (1936)

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. This part is told from the perspective of Akemi. ...

Housewife Camellia (1936)

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to look after, and they end up meeting several colorful personalities. ...

Men vs. Women (1936)

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era. ...

Mr. Thank You (1936)

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo. ...

Him, Her, and the Boys (1935)

A Japanese film ...