Ken Uehara — Actor (33)
Port of Flowers (1943) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
花咲く港
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Eitarō Ozawa / Ken Uehara
other title: Le Port fleuri / 花咲く港
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita’s directorial debut is a breezy, warmhearted, and often very funny crowd-pleaser that’s a testament to the filmmaker’s faith in people.
Tokyo Omnibus (1959) [Movie] TMDB
三羽烏三代記
other title: 三羽烏三代記
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.
A Japanese Tragedy (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
日本の悲劇
other title: Una tragedia giapponese / La Tragédie du Japon
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
365 Nights (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
三百六十五夜
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Ken Uehara / Hisako Yamane
other title: 三百六十五夜
A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and decides to marry her. Only to discover that his father is is in debt and wants him to marry Ranko so that she may help his company by granting 1.5 million yen. Teruko decides to borrow money from a greedy bar owner who lends her money on certain conditions and photographs her without her consent. A love traingle forms between Koroku, Ranko, and Teruko. Things complicate when Koroku marries Teruko and Tsugawa threatens them for the money causing many twists and turns.
Late Chrysanthemums (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
晩菊
other title: Derniers chrysanthèmes / Crisantemos tardíos
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved, and become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days coldly collecting debts. Even her best friends, fellow Geisha Tomi, Nobu, and Tamae, are now indebted to her. For all of them, the glamour of their young lives has passed; Tomi and Tamae have disappointing children. Kin has two former lovers who still pursue her; one she wants to see, and the other she doesn't. But even the one she remembers fondly, when he shows up, proves less than satisfactory.
Untamed Woman (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
あらくれ
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Ken Uehara
other title: Une femme indomptable / Una mujer indomable
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
The Munekata Sisters (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
宗方姉妹
other title: Le sorelle Munekata / As Irmãs Munekata
Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. But now he's back and Mariko tries to reunite them, although she too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.
The Precipice (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
氷壁
other title: 氷壁
Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.
Notes of an Itinerant Performer (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
歌女おぼえ書
director: Hiroshi Shimizu actor: Yaeko Mizutani / Ken Uehara
other title: Notes d'une chanteuse ambulante / 歌女おぼえ書
Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street performances. A way of escape from this marginal existence arises when she gets the chance to move to tea merchant Hiramatsu’s place, where she is asked to teach his daughter to dance.
Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
雪夫人絵図
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Michiyo Kogure / Ken Uehara
other title: Il ritratto della signora Yuki / Le Destin de madame Yuki
A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.
Gorath (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
妖星ゴラス
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Yumi Shirakawa
other title: Ufos zerstören die Erde / Le Choc des planètes
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.