Ken Uehara Movies

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

A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a...

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

A love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo player against the backdrop of Japan in the...

Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes...

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 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...

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...

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...

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

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

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

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

Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. His parents run a sukiyaki restaurant back in his...

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

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

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