Ken Uehara
Birthday: 1909-10-07
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Ken Uehara (上原謙, Uehara Ken, 7 November 1909 – 23 November 1991) was a Japanese actor who appeared in approximately 200 films between 1935 and 1990.
Movies
Atragon
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. Wh...
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The Precipice
Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s D...
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Late Chrysanthemums
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...
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White Fish
A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor...
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third-year junior-high-school student. One day, while cleaning the lab, she sm...
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Portrait of Madame Yuki
A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath...
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Repast
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and ...
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Sound of the Mountain
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slight...
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Mothra
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expediti...
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The President Talks Bank
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher ...
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A Japanese Tragedy
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her un...
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The Munekata Sisters
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had al...
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Flower Season
Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as th...
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Mr. Thank You
In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mou...
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What Did the Lady Forget?
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niec...
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The Storm of the Pacific
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanes...
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Housewife Camellia
The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime commit...
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Flower
Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe ...
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Sumida River
Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to hav...
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Made in Japan
A love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo play...
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Husband and Wife
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husba...
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The Singing Baseball Kid
A musical comedy about a spirited orphan who forms a youth baseball team and gets caught up in a mix...
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The President's Boss
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's d...
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The Lights of Asakusa
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...
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A Rainbow at Every Turn
Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have ...
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The New Road: Akemi
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow ari...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-midd...
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A Brother and His Younger Sister
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. T...
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Port of Flowers
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the ou...
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Women at War
Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a ...
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Okayo's Preparedness
A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance sc...
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The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow
Akiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro Hidaka'...
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Wife
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, mean...
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The Last War
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superp...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, ...
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The Living Magoroku
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitiou...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have be...
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You Are the Next Eagle
A boy aviator endures rigorous training and a sad fate, and grows into a strong man with his eyes se...
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Gorath
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although...
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Campus A Go-Go
Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Rel...
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Demon King of Yoja Manor
During a packed game at Korakuen Stadium, Eagles’ star Tsubota faints, while singer Kyoko Tsukita co...
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The Tree of Love
A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a...
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen in...
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Marriage
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult c...
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Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a tr...
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A Flower Blooms
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her....
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Undercurrent
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor....
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Mother's First Love
A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and d...
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Dimple of Tokyo
Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The ne...
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Family Diary
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married...
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365 Nights
A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love wi...
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Bright Young Maidens
In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student m...
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Nonki saiban
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts re...
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Nightshade Flower
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi....
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Jubilation Street
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand...
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Vermilion and Green
A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees....
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A Night in Hong Kong
Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Jap...
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Men vs. Women
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the er...
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Sir Galahad in Campus
The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series....
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Pride of the Campus
Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing ...
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Untamed Woman
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, ...
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Tokyo Omnibus
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who ru...
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Army
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's...
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Nocturne of a Woman
A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catc...
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A Ripple in a Morning
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in pos...
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College Champ
Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. H...
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the fi...
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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All About Marriage
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, e...
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Actress
Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with dir...
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The Trio's Engagements
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japane...
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the sec...
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Operation Sewer Rats
Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese ...
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A Woman's Life
The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mothe...
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Sound in the Mist
In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma ...
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Ningen moyo
A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president....
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The New Road: Ryota
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow ari...
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Crazy Operation: Drop Dead! Irresponsibility
Seven employees rise up in rebellion against an irresponsible company....
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Elegy
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony...
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Let's Go in Good Spirits
In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were cal...
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Young Guy in Hawaii
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous scree...
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Shojohou
A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and...
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Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong
The third and final chapter of MP & GI's Toho Trilogy expands the geographical reach of the franchis...
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A Female Doctor's Examination Room
A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more sur...
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12 Chapters About Women
Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta w...
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The Terrible Game
Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with t...
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Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scan...
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The Mandarin Room
After running away from her mother, Ashiko works as a maid at an inn and changes her name, but she f...
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Girls Behind Bars
A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths o...
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Vagabond Employee: Revenge Version
Caught in a corporate power struggle, a man uses betrayal and strategy to expose corruption and sett...
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Vagabond Employee: Outcry Version
When a corrupt executive takes over his struggling company and violates his girlfriend, a young sala...
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Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
The night in Ginza was shimmering with neon lights. A grand celebration was being held for the seven...
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Holiday in Tokyo
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, s...
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Young Lovers
Engineer Shuichi defies his wealthy family to live with bar hostess Kazuyo, whose loyalty to her str...
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Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend...
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The College Hero
Romantic melodrama about the loves and adventures of Kageyama (Takarada) and his fellow oarsmen at M...
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Night in Bangkok
Shuichi, a young doctor working at a hospital in Bangkok, falls in love with the daughter of a wealt...
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