Ken Uehara Movies

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...

A story of first love between a misogynistic astronomer and a dancer he met on the street.

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

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

Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom...

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

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

Sankichi Matsutani, a poor young fisherman, falls in love with Kikue, the only daughter of fisher Shiimbei. As the star-crossed lovers come from...

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’...

A modern love story involving different affairs.

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

1962 Japanese movie

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

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

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

Punch, Pinch, and Sentchi are three young women in Tokyo whose work and relationships become entangled after a minor accident draws their boyfriends...