Ken Uehara Movies

1945 Japanese movie

The third and final chapter of MP & GI's Toho Trilogy expands the geographical reach of the franchise, taking stars Lucilla You Min and Takarada...

A boy aviator endures rigorous training and a sad fate, and grows into a strong man with his eyes set on becoming an eagle.

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

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.

Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Released alongside Invasion of Astro Monster.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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’...

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

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...

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

A film by Toshio Sugie