Kichijirō Ueda Movies

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

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

Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed...

Contemporary comedy.

A young engineer and a pure-hearted mountain girl take on the challenges of the Akan primeval forest, where lawlessness and violence run rampant.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

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

A blind little girl searches for her mother.

The first film produced by Daiei.

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

Five fellows are taken by the police for bank hold-ups.

Period comedy.

After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out the homes of his sisters, mother, and girlfriend.

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her own and ends up working as a geisha at a hot...

Melodrama about high school students.