Hitoshi Ueki
Birthday: 1926-12-25
Place of Birth: Aichi, Japan
Biography: Hitoshi Ueki (植木 等, Ueki Hitoshi, December 25, 1926 – March 27, 2007) was a Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and guitarist. He won six awards for acting. His film credits stretch from 1960 to 1995. Ueki came to fame through the comic jazz-band The Crazy Cats led by Hajime Hana. His major appearances were in the Musekinin Otoko film series, the comedy variety show Shabondama Holiday, the prime-time television series The Hangman, and the ten 2-hour television shows in the Nagoya Yomeiri Monogatari franchise. He appeared in the Akira Kurosawa epic jidaigeki film Ran, and received a nomination for the Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.
Movies
Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusiv...
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Sarari man donto bushi - Kiraku na kagyô to kita monda
The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than t...
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Sudara Festival: I Understand, but I can't Stop
1962 Japanese movie based on the Crazy Cats smash hit single, "Sudara Festival", sung by Hitoshi Uek...
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The Crazy Family
Shortly after moving to the suburbs, the Kobayashis start to come undone. Convinced a family curse i...
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In Love With Him
It depicts a young man who challenges a 2600km traverse of Japan from Hidaka in Hokkaido to Kagoshim...
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Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese deve...
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Japan's No. 1 Traitor
The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man"....
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Let's Meet in Our Dreams
Mie Nakao runs away from home to join her older sister's production company as a new talent. We foll...
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Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, j...
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Roar of the Crowd
Based on the non-fiction books by Takushi Ono (the NHK announcer, not the gymnast) and Yoshinari Tob...
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Tattoo
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, pla...
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Ran
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...
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Assassin's Road
Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal ...
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Irresponsible Life in Edo Japan
A comedy directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, based on an original idea by Koji Toita, co-written by Yasuo T...
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The Sandal Keeper
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Hitoshi Ueki) starts out as Nobunaga's "Sandal Keeper" but climbs the ranks to e...
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The Man from Planet Alpha
A film produced by Toho and Watanabe Productions as part of the Crazy Movie project featuring The Cr...
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The Craziest Operation
The Crazy Cats try to steal 1,000,000,000 yen in laundered Yakuza money....
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Crazy Violence at Shimizu Harbor
The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retire...
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Irresponsible Age of Japan
An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder....
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The Woman Who Touched Legs
Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was no...
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Guys Who Never Learn
Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time....
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Las Vegas Free-For-All
The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures through...
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The Crazy Adventure
After being mistaken for counterfeiters by the police an inventor and reporter try to track down the...
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I Go to Tokyo
A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countr...
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Big Joys, Small Sorrows
A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and r...
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Japan's No. 1 Playboy
The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was ...
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Monsieur Zivaco
International thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles rival th...
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The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him t...
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Mexican Free-for-All
The eleventh film in the comedy series starring Japan's leading comedy group, the Crazy Cats. Susumu...
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Crazy Big Explosion
Chaos ensues when a secret agent gathers a group of criminals (The Crazy Cats) to steal gold from a ...
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Goodbye for Tomorrow
People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 mont...
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Japan's No. 1 Braggart
When hopeful Olympic triple-jump competitor injures both his Achilles tendons, he discovers an old m...
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Crazy Operation: First Move
After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various f...
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Crazy Operation: Drop Dead! Irresponsibility
Seven employees rise up in rebellion against an irresponsible company....
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Me and Me
Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original r...
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Japan's No. 1 Reckless Man
The film depicts Ueki's all-around intelligence and how he manages to do difficult jobs for the comp...
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Legend of the Irresponsible Hero
The members of Crazy Cats play employees of a trading company. Ueda Hitoshi of Awa Shoji, a lucky ma...
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Industrial Spy Free-for-All
Saburo Sarutobi, a former member of the Zengakuren, and Maruo Inumaruo, a former member of the polic...
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Japan's No. 1 Mischievous Man
The ninth installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series....
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Japan's No. 1 Shocked Man
The last (10th) Toho "Crazy film" in the Nippon Ichi series....
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Devices Stronger Than Women
An ad campaign for a TV show called the “Male Training Contest” stirs chaos at a major electronics c...
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An Autumn Afternoon
A 2003 version of the 1962 original. Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Grad...
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Crazy Big Discovery
When the yakuza murder a bar hostess who, through a computer error, had amassed a huge fortune , The...
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I'll Be Deceived
A con man defrauds a small rural town, sparking an international manhunt....
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