Ken Uehara
Acting
Biography
Ken Uehara (上原謙, Uehara Ken, 7 November 1909 – 23 November 1991) was a Japanese actor who appeared in approximately 200 films between 1935 and 1990.
Born: October 7, 1909
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Campus A Go-Go
Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Released alongside Invasion of Astro Monster.
Pride of the Campus
Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing tournament.
The New Road: Ryota
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the perspective of Ryota. In this second part, we learn that Akemi is pregnant...
Repast
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
Untamed Woman
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
Sound of the Mountain
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
Late Chrysanthemums
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.
Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
Mothra
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.
Filmography
as Ken Uehara
as 祖父・亀造
as Masaharu Fukamachi
as Haruki Eda
as Michiko Matsubara's father
as Admiral Kosumi
as 上田
as Okamoto's father
as Seki
as Dr. Kôno
as Kingoro Shimagawa
as Minister of Foreign Affairs
as Dr. Harada
as Mr. Nomura
as Ryuzo Kimura
as Sokei Gojo
as Dr. Yabuki
as Doi
as Yusaku Kaneko
as Sahei Nagashima
as Shirō Sumida
as Shirō Sumida
as Koutaro Nomura, Tomoko's Father
as Kentaro Taki
as Sentarō Kuwabara
as Saburo Kakiuchi
as Inspector Uemura
as Shuji Aso
as Tsuru, the first husband
as Kazuhiko Onuma
as Father Takeuchi
as Yukio Takemura
as Company President
as Yuzo Kaneda
as Kujō, Nobuko's husband
as Kurumada Tatsuo
as Tabe
as Otto, Shuuichi
as Akio Kanasugi
as Koyama
as Masayuki Akazawa
as Toichi, Mihoko's husband
as Ryukichi Ogata
as Isaku Nakahara
as Michio Kawai
as Buntaro Kinokuniya
as Minotu Fujisaki
as Managing Director Nakahara
as Hatsunosuke Okamoto
as Masao
as Tohari
as Naohiko Watari
as Kiichiro
as Masaya Kikunaka
as Hiroshi Tashiro
as Dr. Kawamura
as Tamiya Iemon
as Tamiya Iemon
as Kinuhiko Daiwa
as Tokihiko Aida
as Kotaro Hidaka
as Kawakita Koroku
as Saburo Seki
as Tsumoru Sugawara
as 舟田（楽団リーダー）
as Makoto Ichino, Navy
as Nishina
as Suga
as Shingo Furukawa
as Tomekichi
as Mita
as Shôtarô Hiramatsu
as Shunsaku
as Michio Arita
as Ichiro Tsuji
as Kozo Tsumura
as Shichirō Yamagami
as Ken Taniyama
as Movie Star
as Mr. Thank You