Ken Uehara

Shipwreck survivors are found on Beiru, an island previously used for atomic tests. Amazingly free of radiation effects, they believe they were ...

This film features a large extended family (and associates) even more extensive than the one portrayed by Ozu in “End of Summer”. The ...

What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, ...

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Gosho’s most celebrated film both in Japan and the West, Where Chimneys Are Seen is perhaps the most compelling example of his concern for, and ...

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband’s co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and ...

Hamako has just started working for her personal hero, Madame Yuki. Her romanticized view of the Madame is broken immediately, though, as she is ...

Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them ...

Japanese film about a friendly bus driver and his passengers over the duration of one journey through the mountains to the nearest train station.