Ran
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an agi...
Acting
Hitoshi Ueki (植木 等, Ueki Hitoshi, December 25, 1926 – March 27, 2007) was a Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and guitarist. He won six awards for acting. His film credits stretch from 1960 to 1995. Ueki came to fame through the comic jazz-band The Crazy Cats led by Hajime Hana. His major appearances were in the Musekinin Otoko film series, the comedy variety show Shabondama Holiday, the prime-time television series The Hangman, and the ten 2-hour television shows in the Nagoya Yomeiri Monogatari franchise. He appeared in the Akira Kurosawa epic jidaigeki film Ran, and received a nomination for the Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.
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Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an agi...
Eiji Ogawa, a young leader of the Hattagumi yakuza, left the prison after two years sentence. However, it was o...
"Big Money!" is a human drama with a suspense twist about a young man who learns the tricks of the trade about...
Shortly after moving to the suburbs, the Kobayashis start to come undone. Convinced a family curse is at the ro...
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold...
The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but d...
People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier...
A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.
An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.
Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in life is to...
A film produced by Toho and Watanabe Productions as part of the Crazy Movie project featuring The Crazy Cats co...
The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 196...
1962 Japanese movie
The eleventh film in the comedy series starring Japan's leading comedy group, the Crazy Cats. Susumu Sakamori a...
Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time.
Chaos ensues when a secret agent gathers a group of criminals (The Crazy Cats) to steal gold from a bank.
Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. I...
A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countryside.
After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gathe...
Mie Nakao runs away from home to join her older sister's production company as a new talent. We follow her ups...
The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retired from the...
Based on the non-fiction books by Takushi Ono (the NHK announcer, not the gymnast) and Yoshinari Tobe.
When hopeful Olympic triple-jump competitor injures both his Achilles tendons, he discovers an old manuscript a...
The Crazy Cats try to steal 1,000,000,000 yen in laundered Yakuza money.
Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.
Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".
The eighth installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series.
1962 Japanese movie
The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man".
The film depicts Ueki's all-around intelligence and how he manages to do difficult jobs for the company without...
1961 Japanese movie