Movies: Hitoshi Ueki

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war a...

1962 Japanese movie...

1962 Japanese movie...

A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countryside....

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank....

1962 Japanese movie...

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A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats....

The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as perfect as they seem: the house is infested by termites and the family starts going crazy. As the Ko...

Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal lord and travel to Edo. It was said that Tsurunosuke, the man supposed to be the next federal lord, got a heavy disease, and the order aimed to make s...

A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life....

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Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer....

The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but became star. First film in popular "Number 1" Series....

People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening....

The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit melody of Ueki etc. [Selection of Actors and Directors]....

An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder....

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Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story about her parents who killed himself and died for overwork to feel sorry about her....

This film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role....