Kichijirō Ueda Movies

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

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Cast: Chishū Ryū

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

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rikiya Yasuoka

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shima Iwashita

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching! Miyoshi Oki was born in Hokkaido and grew up...

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Cast: Taro Marui

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray. While...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Frankie Sakai

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

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Cast: Jiro Okazaki

A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and...

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fukuzo and Kato were comrades during the war. One...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins...

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Cast: 花柳寿美

Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

Jidaigeki by Tai Kato

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between father and daughters against the...

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Cast: Isamu Kosugi

Second movie in the Sakura Code series.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

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Cast: Chosuke Ikariya

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

1946 Japanese movie

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

First part - Edo at the end of the Edo period, when the wind and clouds were rising rapidly - The people gathered at Kiba late at night are Shinnojo...

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

After losing all his money, Kizuka Keita, a seller on the black market, is trying to commit suicide. But he is saved by Morigen, a broker on the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Makoto Fujita

Jewel thieves become interested in an invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ken Utsui

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.

Genre: War

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Japanese film.

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Japanese film.

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

1970 Toei movie.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Reiko Mikasa

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

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Mari Sono

Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the farmers transporting gold to the governor think they...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruyo Ichikawa

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

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Cast: Fujiko Fukamizu

A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras. Discover 4 famous Japanese murderers:...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Teruo Yoshida

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-shogunate activities in Kyoto. A sinister plot to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Rivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Thanks to a secret message hidden on the two sacred swords Kaen and Suien, the samurai Genji Kurô (Nakamura Kinnosuke) found the hidden...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of delinquent girls eventually reunites a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Reiko Oshida

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that...

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Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

Period romantic drama.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Interesting fights between the "Capone Group" and "Jumbo Group".

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Tetsuko (Eiko Yanami), a high school student, one day, forces Tsuneo, (Kei Wakakura), the brightest boy in her school, to make love to her after...

Genre: Action

Cast: Eiko Yanami

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Miwako Onaya

A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masumi Tachibana

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kensaku Hara

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Yoshida

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appears to be his doppelganger, and gets...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Teruo Yoshida

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isamu Nagato

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

It's an extravaganza of entertainment as famous magistrate in disguise, Toyama no Kinshiro attempts to confront the elusive thief known as the ...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Aiko Mimasu

Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chosuke Ikariya

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chosuke Ikariya

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chosuke Ikariya

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jō Shishido

A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The young Genji warrior protects the Fujiwara Clan and...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as an aggressive warrior, the battles he won until...

Genre: History

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Masao Wakahara

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Nakata

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Cast: Chiyoko Shimakura

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chōchō Miyako

Film from 1967.

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Cast: Hideaki Nitani

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kinichi Hagimoto

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kinichi Hagimoto

Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.

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Cast: Akira Takarada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.

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Cast: Akira Kubo

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Yoshida

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

1953 Hiroshi Inagaki movie.

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Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

Genre: History

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

Genre: History

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.

Genre: History

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

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Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

Gensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was hesitant to get married because he had to feed his...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Adapted from the song " Tokyo Olympic Ondo " , which was the theme song for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics held in October 1964 . Song was composed by Masao...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Yamauchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

1942 Japanese movie

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kenji Sugawara

A modern love story involving different affairs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misa Uehara