Kichijirō Ueda Movies

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an...

Two born rivals plot a new start after a string of ups and downs.

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

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

1961 Japanese movie

A tragic love story about the heiress of the Kitakyushu Tagawa family who becomes a hostess in Osaka.

1962 Japanese movie

Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert.

Second part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto.

A college football star gets caught in a scandal involving a geisha teacher, endangering his team’s season and his family’s...

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the...

This film, which was recommended by the Ministry of Education, is based on the Malaya Campaign and the Battle of Singapore and was produced to boost...

When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his...

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

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.

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...