Ken Uehara

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Tadao Takashima

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasumi Hara

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sugawara

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruko Sugimura

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Akira Takarada

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

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Cast: Ken Uehara

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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Cast: Ken Uehara

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

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Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Yoshiyama Kazuko is a third-year junior high school student. One day while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Tomoyo Harada

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

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Cast: Ken Uehara

A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Frankie Sakai

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūko Mochizuki

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

1939 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as the daughter-in-law of Koichi, the eldest son of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Kurishima

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...

Genre: War

Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Ken Uehara

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...

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Cast: Hideo Fujino

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasumi Hara

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...

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Cast: Shusuke Agata

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

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Cast: Katsuhiko Haida

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

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. This part is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

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’...

Genre: War

Cast: Eitarō Ozawa

Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to...

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Cast: Kaneko Fujiwara

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frankie Sakai

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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Hayama

In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

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Cast: Ken Uehara

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

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Cast: Ken Uehara

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

During a packed game at Korakuen Stadium, Eagles’ star Tsubota faints, while singer Kyoko Tsukita collapses on stage at Cabaret Copacana. Goro...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jūzaburō Akechi

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

1947 Japanese movie

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Cast: Ken Uehara

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san"...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

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’...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hideko Takamine

In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical school newsletter and attempts to find a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Izumi Yukimura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Takarada

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

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

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Cast: Ken Uehara

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Genre: War

Cast: Ken Uehara

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Akira Takarada

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

A Japanese film

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Cast: Ken Uehara

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

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

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Cast: Yūzō Kayama

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

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Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

A modern love story involving different affairs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misa Uehara

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

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

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

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Cast: Akira Takarada

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Genre: History

Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō I

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Izumi Yukimura

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shūji Sano

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Takarada

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

Genre: War

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michiko Namiki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Japanese war movie.

Genre: War

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.

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Cast: Ken Uehara

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Yoshikawa

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Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in Hawaii.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Weed with Flowers

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Furuya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jun Negami

A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lucilla Yu Ming

A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more surprised to discover that he has a wife and child....

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Cast: Setsuko Hara