Ken Uehara — Actor (43)
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The New Road: Ryota (1936)
新道　後篇・良太の巻 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Heinosuke Gosho actor: Mitsuko Yoshikawa / Sozo Okada …
other title: 新道　後篇・良太の巻 / New Way: Ryota …
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the perspective of Ryota. In this second part, we learn that Akemi is pregnant...
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Family Diary (1938)
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Hiroshi Shimizu actor: Ken Uehara / Michiko Kuwano …
other title: 家庭日記 / Journal d'une famille
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ families, and all is well. Then the disagreements start...
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Hawai no wakadaishô (1963)
ハワイの若大将 IMDb Douban
福田纯 actor: 加山雄三 / 星由里子 …
other title: 夏威夷的若大將 / ハワイの若大将 …
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in Hawaii.
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Let's Go in Good Spirits (1941)
元気で行かうよ IMDb Douban
野村浩将 actor: 佐野周二 / 上原谦 …
other title: 元気で行こうよ / 元気で行かうよ
In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means “waiter” literally. They are doing odd jobs in the company including serving tea, ushering visitors, buying tobacco, etc. Ordering lunch for the individual requests was also an important job. Those boys were hired often as soon as they graduated from elementary school.
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Sound in the Mist (1956)
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清水宏 actor: Ken Uehara / 木暮实千代 …
other title: 霧の音 / 雾之音 …
In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Kazuhiko's wife Kazuyo comes to see them and confronts the professor about his extramarital affair, and Tsuruko, an inevitable witness to the confrontation, leaves the professor the following morning. Over the next decade, whenever he visits the mountain cabin every autumn equinox, the memory of Tsuruko will forever haunt Kazuhiko...
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间谍仍未死 (1942)
間諜未だ死せず Douban
吉村公三郎 actor: 佐分利信 / 上原谦 …
other title: 間諜未だ死せず
昭和16年、文化雑誌の経営者ジャック・ノーランは、日本に暗躍する諜報組織の一員だった。武田憲兵少佐（佐分利信）は、彼をマークしているものの、決定的な証拠をつかめずにいた。そんなある日、忽然と現れたのが、熱狂的抗日派のスパイ王有方（原保美）である。彼は日支提携の布石となって活躍した津村家に寄宿し、ノーランの手先として動いていた…。
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All About Marriage (1958)
結婚のすべて Douban
冈本喜八 actor: 朝比奈知子 / 環三千世 …
other title: 结婚的全部 / 結婚のすべて
“独立愚連隊”シリーズや“暗黒街”もので日本映画に新風を吹き込んだ名匠・岡本喜八監督のデビュー作。当時アイドル・スターであった雪村いづみを主演に据えた恋愛結婚に憧れる若い女性を描く風俗コメディで、そのテンポの速さが評判になった。衣装や装置も実にモダン。
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The Lights of Asakusa (1937)
浅草の灯 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
島津保次郎 actor: 上原謙 / 高峰三枝子 …
other title: 浅草之灯 / 浅草の灯 …
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.