Ken Uehara Movies

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

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.

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...

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

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

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...

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

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

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

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

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...

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

Japanese drama film.

1962 Japanese movie

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

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

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...