Ken Uehara Movies

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

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.

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

The night in Ginza was shimmering with neon lights. A grand celebration was being held for the seventh anniversary of the club "Ayako." Among the...

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

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

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

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

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

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’...

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...

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

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...

Weed with Flowers

Ken Uehara plays the role of a prominent figure in the red-light district and portrays his violent personality.

Film by Kon Ichikawa

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...