Hiroshi Ueda Movies

Period comedy.

Biographical film about bacteriologist Dr. Hideyo Noguchi.

Itarō abandons his life as a hatamoto to become a yakuza.

Expressing the distinct personalities of the three daughters.

Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the monks of Mount Hiei.

A comedic retelling of the legendary encounter between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamato Musashi.

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by...

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much.

A seafaring man who hates women and a barmaid who hates men… drawn together and torn apart by a strange twist of fate… a melodrama of...