Ken Uehara Filmes

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

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

1947 Japanese movie

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.

A Japanese film

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

A boy aviator endures rigorous training and a sad fate, and grows into a strong man with his eyes set on becoming an eagle.

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

1962 Japanese movie

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a...

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...

1962 Japanese movie