Ken Uehara Movies

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...

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...

A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more surprised to discover that he has a wife and child....

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

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...

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

A maritime action drama set aboard a whaling ship rocked by a labor-management conflict. Shintoho's second color feature.

In this sequel to Three Dolls in College, the three friends continue their adventures and get into a rockabilly club in Ginza.

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...

Film by Kon Ichikawa