Kichijirō Ueda Movies

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

1969 Japanese movie

1953 Hiroshi Inagaki movie.

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

Jidaigeki by Tai Kato

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

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

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...

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...

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

A film adaptation of the story “Gonzo and Sukejū” from a new perspective.

1964 Japanese movie

Tsukinosuke narrowly misses capturing the lord of the phantom castle by a hair's breadth. The mountain map was with Kirisaku at the Ashiwara...

Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very bad manners. Moulin, Kakumaru's former partner,...

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...

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

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