Ken Uehara Movies

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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

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...

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

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

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

A Japanese film

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.

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...

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

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’...

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

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

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

Caught in a corporate power struggle, a man uses betrayal and strategy to expose corruption and settle personal scores—only to find true...

A melodrama in which two lovers reunite after a long journey through life.

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...

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’...