Ken Uehara Movies

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...

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

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

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’...

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

1962 Japanese movie

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...

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

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

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"...

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...

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

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

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

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...

1962 Japanese movie

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

In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night,...