Ken Uehara Movies

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

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...

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...

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

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Ken Uehara plays the role of a prominent figure in the red-light district and portrays his violent personality.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who...

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