Kichijirō Ueda Movies

1955 Japanese movie

Film from 1967.

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...

Second movie in the Sakura Code series.

Melodrama about high school students.

Film about a station master's romance with a young prostitute.

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...

Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.

Mt. Norikura's natural fortress, the phantom castle. A white-clad iron mask, offering prayers to the eerie triple-faced deity of the Sennjogadake...

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

1962 Japanese movie

Second part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto.

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...

One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boom in snow men, the public began to make a fuss...

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.

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

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...