Ken Uehara Movies

1956 Daiei movie

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...

A romance between a young koto prodigy and the head of a koto school’s daughter.

What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved, and become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days...

A young woman (Kuga), recuperating at a sanitarium in Karuizawa, falls in love with a young student (Ishihama) but returns to Tokyo to be with her...

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

A pure love story between a former member of the imperial family who has been demoted to commoner status and a young girl.

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

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.

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...

It was a sanatorium in the highlands. Patients such as Totsuka, Hirota, and Hashida were battling their illnesses under the devoted care of Michiko,...

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

A Japanese film

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

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’...

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