Ken Uehara Movies

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

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 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...

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

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...

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...

Japanese drama film.

Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese captivity.

Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing...

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...

A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.

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

1962 Japanese movie

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

Akiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro Hidaka's house. Hidaka, who is a poor musician suffers...

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