Kichijirō Ueda Movies

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

Comedy about a Japanese-American professor, a nuclear scientist, who returns to Japan to search for a typically subservient Japanese wife.

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at...

A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a...

A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.

1962 Japanese movie

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

A unique tale of romance and action in which an escaped convict fights villains to save his comrade’s sister from danger, only to fall in...

A murder case tied to a missing love letter… Heiji heads west along the Tōkaidō in pursuit of thirteen suspicious individuals.

1957 Japanese movie.

Five fellows are taken by the police for bank hold-ups.

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...