Kenjiro Uemura

Kenjiro Uemura

Born: January 3, 1914
Died: April 3, 1979
in Naitomachi, Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Kenjiro Uemura...

Blood For Blood
Title: Blood For Blood
Released: June 10, 1971
Type: Movie
The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.
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Pay Off Your Debt!
Title: Pay Off Your Debt!
Released: September 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Asakura was told he could leave the gang if he killed Takahata, but he failed and was sentenced to two years. When he was released, the Oyane group was crushed, and instead, the emerging gangster Hokuyokai was in charge of the Oyane group's territory.
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Gambler's Dilemma
Title: Gambler's Dilemma
Character: Murai Tsunematsu
Released: September 27, 1969
Type: Movie
The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.
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The Spiders' The Noisy Parade
Title: The Spiders' The Noisy Parade
Character: Minegishi
Released: January 3, 1968
Type: Movie
Popular Japanese Group Sounds band, The Spiders, star in their second movie, a "HELP!" inspired rock n roll spy movie!
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Gambler: Victory Without Death
Title: Gambler: Victory Without Death
Released: July 8, 1967
Type: Movie
Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by serving as a pit boss for a struggling coal mine in Kyuushu. Quickly there's trouble with the local mining competition, who doesn't always play a fair game. True to his hot-headed nickname, Tsune only gets into deeper trouble.
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The Gambler's Law
Title: The Gambler's Law
Released: May 3, 1967
Type: Movie
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Gang's Upward Strategy
Title: Gang's Upward Strategy
Released: December 18, 1965
Type: Movie
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Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko
Title: Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko
Released: November 20, 1965
Type: Movie
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The Hoodlum Brothers
Title: The Hoodlum Brothers
Released: August 25, 1965
Type: Movie
A crime film released in 1965
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The Gambling Samurai
Title: The Gambling Samurai
Released: November 14, 1964
Type: Movie
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing
Title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing
Character: Sir Yorii
Released: May 23, 1964
Type: Movie
A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into more sword-fighting adventures when he's blamed for the beheading. Meanwhile, the head-chopper's mother is busy knocking off the shogun's lawful heirs to secure the shogunate for her son.
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The Third Ninja
Title: The Third Ninja
Released: March 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.
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Moonshadow Ninja Scroll: Twenty-One Eyes
Title: Moonshadow Ninja Scroll: Twenty-One Eyes
Character: Ryusai
Released: December 15, 1963
Type: Movie
A wave of terror is threatening to unseat Shogun Yoshimune. Police stations are erupting into flames, convicts escaping from prison, houses robbed and vandalized, streets teeming with panicked citizens. Is Ijyuin Tanomo, highly-placed official of Owari clan, secretly using deadly ninja to foment riot and rebellion? Narumiya Shinbei, a lone samurai spy adept at ninjutsu must uncover the hidden hand orchestrating these shocking crimes. Shinbei enlists a small band of dedicated ninja to lay siege to the enemy’s stronghold, where his own sister works as an undercover agent. Now, ninja must fight ninja in a last desperate battle to save the shogunate.
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Blind Wolf
Title: Blind Wolf
Released: September 29, 1963
Type: Movie
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Duel of the Underworld
Title: Duel of the Underworld
Released: July 13, 1963
Type: Movie
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Hell's Kitchen
Title: Hell's Kitchen
Released: October 12, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Thinking Leaf
Title: The Thinking Leaf
Released: May 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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Love at the Fogged Harbor
Title: Love at the Fogged Harbor
Released: February 21, 1962
Type: Movie
A bittersweet love story between yakuza Hiroshi and a married woman Reiko.
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Mahiru no wana
Title: Mahiru no wana
Character: Sakurai
Released: December 18, 1960
Type: Movie
On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job after a run-in with some punks, but is offered a job by a gangster impressed by his fighting skills. He tries to make amends with the girl he ravished, but becomes caught up in the ways of the underworld...
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Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
Title: Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
Released: May 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.
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Who is in the Background?
Title: Who is in the Background?
Released: December 6, 1959
Type: Movie
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Title: The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Character: Bannai Jôtôhei
Released: November 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
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The Boy Detectives Club – The Enemy Is an Atomic Submarine
Title: The Boy Detectives Club – The Enemy Is an Atomic Submarine
Character: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
Released: March 25, 1959
Type: Movie
Ninth and final film in the Boy Detectives Club series. Features Tatsuo Umemiya's film debut.
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Immoral Lecture
Title: Immoral Lecture
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: Movie
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Moonlight Mask: Claws of Satan
Title: Moonlight Mask: Claws of Satan
Character: Satan no Tsume
Released: December 22, 1958
Type: Movie
The 3rd Moonlight Mask movie from the 50s.
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Voice Without a Shadow
Title: Voice Without a Shadow
Released: October 22, 1958
Type: Movie
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of the killer. Before she can investigate further, Hamazaki is found dead and her husband becomes the prime suspect.
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Why Cry
Title: Why Cry
Released: May 27, 1958
Type: Movie
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Anko naze naku" by Takeo Fujishima.
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Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
Title: Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
Released: April 29, 1958
Type: Movie
"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle for the popular singer/actor Yūjirō Ishihara.
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Flesh Pier
Title: Flesh Pier
Released: April 12, 1958
Type: Movie
Director Teruo Ishi's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style.
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Princess Tsuki
Title: Princess Tsuki
Released: January 9, 1958
Type: Movie
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Freelance Samurai
Title: Freelance Samurai
Character: Takagaki
Released: December 15, 1957
Type: Movie
One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach Boy.
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Teen Age Trap
Title: Teen Age Trap
Released: December 15, 1957
Type: Movie
Japanese drama film.
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I Am Waiting
Title: I Am Waiting
Character: Police detective
Released: October 22, 1957
Type: Movie
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
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Small Rats of the Edo Town
Title: Small Rats of the Edo Town
Character: Jûemon
Released: October 15, 1957
Type: Movie
The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling against the contradictions of feudal society.
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The Temptress and the Monk
Title: The Temptress and the Monk
Character: Traveler
Released: August 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Title: A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Character: Chobei
Released: July 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
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Eight Hours of Terror
Title: Eight Hours of Terror
Character: Daisuke Oi
Released: March 8, 1957
Type: Movie
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
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Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
Title: Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
Character: Sakanashi
Released: January 3, 1957
Type: Movie
A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.
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Saigo no sentō-ki
Title: Saigo no sentō-ki
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
The first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the end of the Pacific War, with thrill and speed
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Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
Title: Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
Character: Denshichi
Released: July 31, 1956
Type: Movie
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older woman, while Yoshigi is shunted off into a nearby noodle shop, where he gets a job delivering noodles. Tsutue charms and runs off with one of her clients. Yoshigi, ignoring the attentions of a sweet co-worker, pursues Tsutue.
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Hi no tori
Title: Hi no tori
Released: June 14, 1956
Type: Movie
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she performed enthusiastically on the stage that night, attracting a crowded audience.
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I'm Not the Criminal
Title: I'm Not the Criminal
Character: Kuronuma
Released: February 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Japanese crime film.
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Cell No. 8
Title: Cell No. 8
Released: January 15, 1956
Type: Movie
A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
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Duel at Sundown
Title: Duel at Sundown
Character: Shuriken no Ginji
Released: May 24, 1955
Type: Movie
A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.
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The Green Music Box
Title: The Green Music Box
Character: Tazawa
Released: May 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doesn't know about. Ever since he moved up to the research laboratory in Hokkaido, Ruriko hasn't heard from him. The only thing that reminded her of his warmth was the green music box that he’d left behind for her. She longed to reunite with her father. The little box played music that lifted her spirits, to a place where everything was perfect.
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Dorodarake no seishun
Title: Dorodarake no seishun
Released: September 21, 1954
Type: Movie
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.
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爆笑天国 とんち教室
Title: 爆笑天国 とんち教室
Released: July 13, 1954
Type: Movie
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A 16-Year-Old Girl's Jazz Festival
Title: A 16-Year-Old Girl's Jazz Festival
Released: January 9, 1954
Type: Movie
Japanese musical.
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Gate of Hell
Title: Gate of Hell
Character: Masanaka
Released: October 30, 1953
Type: Movie
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is married.
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Eagle of the Pacific
Title: Eagle of the Pacific
Released: October 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.
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Dedication of the Great Buddha
Title: Dedication of the Great Buddha
Released: March 20, 1952
Type: Movie
Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
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Tōkaidō wa kyōjō tabi
Title: Tōkaidō wa kyōjō tabi
Released: July 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the original story by Hida Yoshiro, whose depiction of the world of the yakuza is unparalleled. Gisuke, a weather-beaten yakuza with nostalgia and memories of love in his heart.
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Hyōchū no Bijo
Title: Hyōchū no Bijo
Released: March 12, 1950
Type: Movie
Based on the novel The Vampire (Kyūketsuki) by Edogawa Ranpo.
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Street of Violence
Title: Street of Violence
Character: Shanghai Tetsu
Released: February 26, 1950
Type: Movie
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
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Nagareru hoshi wa ikiteiru
Title: Nagareru hoshi wa ikiteiru
Released: September 18, 1949
Type: Movie
Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara
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The Rainbow Man
Title: The Rainbow Man
Character: Katsundo Maya
Released: July 18, 1949
Type: Movie
When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound.
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The Quiet Duel
Title: The Quiet Duel
Character: Susumu Nakada
Released: March 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.
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Ghost Tower
Title: Ghost Tower
Character: Susumu Ochiai
Released: December 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.
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Todoroki Sensei
Title: Todoroki Sensei
Released: March 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi
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Palette knife no satsujin
Title: Palette knife no satsujin
Released: October 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Based on the short story The Psychological Test by Edogawa Rampo.
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The Tiger of Malaya
Title: The Tiger of Malaya
Released: June 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.
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The Day England Falls
Title: The Day England Falls
Released: November 19, 1942
Type: Movie