Ken Uehara Movies

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

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes...

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...

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

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

Seven employees rise up in rebellion against an irresponsible company.

At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scandals. When a guest threatens to expose one maid's...

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

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

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

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

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...

Portmanteau film about young lovers.