Ken Uehara Movies

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

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....

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...

1947 Japanese movie

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

1962 Japanese 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.

A Japanese film

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’...

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

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

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...

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...

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...

After running away from her mother, Ashiko works as a maid at an inn and changes her name, but she finds herself torn between her past and a new...

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

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...

A film by Toshio Sugie