Kichijirō Ueda
Birthday: 1904-03-30
Place of Birth: Kobe, Japan
Biography: Kichijirō Ueda was a Japanese stage, film and television actor.
Movies
The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
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Rashomon
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife....
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A Good Man, A Good Day
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his sur...
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Omatsuri hanjiro
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun,...
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I Live in Fear
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal...
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A Lonely Gamble
In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt...
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The Lower Depths
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...
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A Modern Samurai Village
Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a...
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Inte...
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Car Thieves
Mixed-race children in Japan become involved in the petty theft of car parts....
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The Song Lantern
The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film t...
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Her Hidden Past
Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the imposs...
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Muchana Yakko
A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching...
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The Scarlet Camellia
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the ...
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Gamera vs. Gyaos
Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to sl...
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Adventures of Zatoichi
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader w...
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The Bride from Japan
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three...
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Yaji and Kita on the Road
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious ...
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Bloody Territories
A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses ...
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Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
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Oda Nobunaga
A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" o...
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Oh, My Comrade!
Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fuk...
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情艶一代女
Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her danci...
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Mito Kōmon's Rambling Journey: The Sword of the Soaring Dragon
Adaptation of Mito Kōmon....
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Rise Against the Sword
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight the...
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祇園物語 春怨
The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful lov...
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Scandal
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a pain...
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Throne of Blood
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
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Gale Winds! Tengu Karama
The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi....
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Flowing
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Kat...
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The Whale God
A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it....
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Black Test Car
Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car ea...
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Teru hi kumoru hi dainihen Part 01
First part - Edo at the end of the Edo period, when the wind and clouds were rising rapidly - The pe...
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Devotion to Railway
A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasak...
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Red Diamond
After losing all his money, Kizuka Keita, a seller on the black market, is trying to commit suicide....
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The Invisible Man Appears
A scientist successfully creates an invisibility serum, only to be kidnapped by a gang of thugs who ...
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Black Report
After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for ...
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The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5....
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The Legend of the White Serpent
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in lov...
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The Fencing Master
The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming...
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor
A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his ser...
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I Saw a Phantom Fish
A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish....
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Beyond Love and Hate
A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife...
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Marital Relations
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The ...
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Shogun's Joy of Torture
A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishme...
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Bonds of Love
Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company...
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Sword for Hire
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his l...
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Wind, Woman and Road
A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the farmer...
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Three Outlaw Samurai
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dic...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets wh...
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Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no...
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Festival Across the Sea
There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, duri...
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Daredevil in the Castle
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has...
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Love and Crime
A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa ...
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The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi
The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-sh...
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Wolves of the City, Operation "Rat"
Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters....
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Tales of Young Genji Kuro 2
Thanks to a secret message hidden on the two sacred swords Kaen and Suien, the samurai Genji Kurô (N...
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters
After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a...
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Drunkard's Paradise
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving beh...
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Live and Learn
Tetsuko (Eiko Yanami), a high school student, one day, forces Tsuneo, (Kei Wakakura), the brightest ...
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The Revelation of a Geisha
After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her o...
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Hot Springs Geisha
A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part...
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Souls in the Moonlight II
This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva...
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Orgies of Edo
Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody fo...
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The Three Treasures
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to suc...
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A Geisha's Diary
A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she stru...
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New Year Trip
A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missin...
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The Acrobats of Death
Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon th...
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Horrors of Malformed Men
After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead ma...
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Samurai from Nowhere
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of swor...
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The Lone Journey
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie p...
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The Edo Official and Apprentice
It's an extravaganza of entertainment as famous magistrate in disguise, Toyama no Kinshiro attempts...
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Superexpress
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a l...
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Our Miyo-chan
Owner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl....
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The Dragon Crest
A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan....
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Shameless School
Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip....
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The Demon of Mount Oe
A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The y...
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Date Masamune the One-Eyed Dragon
The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as a...
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Last of the Wild Ones
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power....
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The Tiger of Malaya
A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya....
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Nippon no obaachan
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast abo...
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Women in Prison
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is ...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family ...
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Ugetsu
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...
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Konto 55: The Weaknesses of the Century
A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and...
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On This Earth
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His m...
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The Surf
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But S...
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Inferno of Torture
Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "pr...
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Last Days of Edo
It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in ...
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Story of Lightning
Gensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was hesita...
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Tokyo Olympics
Adapted from the song " Tokyo Olympic Ondo " , which was the theme song for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics ...
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The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind
The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The ...
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Why Are We Young?
After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a ...
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The Judo Champ
When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected ...
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Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority
A tragic love story about the heiress of the Kitakyushu Tagawa family who becomes a hostess in Osaka...
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The Snowy Heron
The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. ...
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Maboroshijō dainiwa shi no senpū
The undercover agent Tsukinosuke Kigurumi successfully escapes with Kirisaku, who possesses the cove...
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The Mysterious Cape
Ryujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy pati...
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Who Is the Informer?
After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out ...
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A Man in the Storm
Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a k...
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Miyamoto Musashi - Dai-ichi-bu: Kusawake no hitobito - Dai-ni-bu: Eitatsu no mon
Second part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto....
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Ohana han
This is a film adaptation of a popular NHK drama that depicts a strong-willed woman, Hana, who lives...
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Maboroshijō daiichiwa Hida no uzushio
Mt. Norikura's natural fortress, the phantom castle. A white-clad iron mask, offering prayers to the...
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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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Maboroshijō kaiketsu-hen kizoji no gaika
Tsukinosuke narrowly misses capturing the lord of the phantom castle by a hair's breadth. The mounta...
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関八州勢揃い
During the Tenpo era, the peasants of the Kanto region were in dire straits due to successive natura...
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Himalayan Wanderer
One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boo...
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A Young Boss Tries Really Hard
A college football star gets caught in a scandal involving a geisha teacher, endangering his team’s ...
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Fox and Raccoon
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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Dear Mr. Prime Minister
Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very ba...
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Walleyed Nippon
Comedy about a Japanese-American professor, a nuclear scientist, who returns to Japan to search for ...
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Fighting Cha Cha Girl
After winning a singing contest, Momoko leaves her rural village for Tokyo to pursue her dream. Misu...
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