Kichijirō Ueda Movies

Ryujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy patients. When Saotome, a sword master and guard of...

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-shogunate activities in Kyoto. A sinister plot to...

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

1964 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

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...

Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very bad manners. Moulin, Kakumaru's former partner,...

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...

Second movie in the Sakura Code series.

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...

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 village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.