Ken Uehara Movies

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 youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a...

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a...

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

Film by Kon Ichikawa

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...

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

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

1956 Drama by Toshio Sugie

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

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.

1962 Japanese movie

Romantic thriller film.

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

At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scandals. When a guest threatens to expose one maid's...

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...

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

Seven employees rise up in rebellion against an irresponsible company.