Kichijirō Ueda Movies

A modern love story involving different affairs.

A realistic film that sharply portrays a cross-section of postwar society.

After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional...

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

This is a film adaptation of a popular NHK drama that depicts a strong-willed woman, Hana, who lives a lively life while being swept up in the waves...

The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his father, the Shogun. However, his journey is...

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but...

The fourth an final film in the "Jirocho igaiden" series.

The story of a young police officer who risks his career to save the soul of a woman who curses societal evils and chooses the path of...

Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins...

A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missing brother.

Owner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl.

Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.

Comedy about a Japanese-American professor, a nuclear scientist, who returns to Japan to search for a typically subservient Japanese wife.

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.

A yakuza bodyguard is persuaded by Ōhara Yūgaku to take the farmers’ side.

Mixed-race children in Japan become involved in the petty theft of car parts.