Ken Uehara Movies

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...

Romantic thriller film.

1956 Daiei movie

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.

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

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

When a corrupt executive takes over his struggling company and violates his girlfriend, a young salaryman declares war, leaving his job to expose the...

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

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...

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...

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...

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

A melodrama in which two lovers reunite after a long journey through life.

1962 Japanese movie

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

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