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Tag Archives: Ken Uehara
Munekata kyôdai / The Munekata Sisters (1950) Yasujirô Ozu, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara
Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. Read More »
Ikite iru Magoroku / The Living Magoroku (1943)
A superstitious farming family is hesitant to use their prized fallow fields to grow crops to help feed the nation’s troops. Read More »
Marriage (1947) Keisuke Kinoshita, Kinuyo Tanaka
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family’s in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat. Read More »
Wife AKA Tsuma (1953) Mikio Naruse, Mieko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Rentarô Mikuni
Tokyo. Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawa’s ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia. Read More »
Port of Flowers / Hana saku minato (1943) Keisuke Kinoshita, Eitarô Ozawa, Ken Uehara, Mitsuko Mito
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked Read More »
Late Chrysanthemums / Bangiku (1954) Mikio Naruse, Haruko Sugimura, Ken Uehara, Sadako Sawamura
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Read More »
Mr. Thank You (1936) Hiroshi Shimizu, Ken Uehara, Ryuji Ishiyama, Einosuke Naka
Mr. Thank You is the kindly young driver of a local bus traveling from poverty stricken coastal villages, over the mountains, to the town. Read More »
Husband and Wife (1953) Mikio Naruse, Ken Uehara, Yôko Sugi, Rentarô Mikuni
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband’s co-worker, a widower. Read More »
