Ken Uehara Archives

The Ghost of Yotsuya [<i>Parts 1 and II</i>] (1949)

Rating: ★★½

May 16, 2024Japanese Ghost Story

One of a number of films based on the most famous of all Japanese ghost stories. This is a adaptation made in the neo-realist style of the period that was released in two parts

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita

Actors: Ken Uehara, Hisako Yamane, Kinuyo Tanaka, Jukichi Uno

Category: Horror

16 May 202414 November 2025 by Roog

Gorath (1962)

Rating: ★★½

Jun 21, 2017Rogue Planet on a Collision Course with Earth

One of the other films from Godzilla creator Ishiro Honda. This has been incorrectly identified as a Japanese giant monster film but is mostly a colourful space opera about a rogue planet

Director: Ishiro Honda

Actors: Ryo Ikebe, Akira Kubo, Yumi Shirakawa, Ken Uehara, …

Category: Science Fiction

21 June 201726 October 2025 by Roog

Mothra (1962)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 19, 2010Japanese Monster Movie

The most successful of the original monster movies Toho made after the success of Godzilla, the only one to spawn its own sequels, and one of the best kaiju eiga of the era

Director: Ishiro Honda

Actors: Franky Sakai, Jerry Ito, Hiroshi Koizumi, Ken Uehara

Category: Science Fiction

19 April 20103 September 2025 by Roog

Atragon (1963)

Rating: ★★½

Sep 17, 2024Super-Submarine Adventure

Ishiro Honda, the director of Godzilla, makes a colourful dventure film about a super-submarine battling an undersea empire in the vein of other works of the era like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Director: Ishiro Honda

Actors: Tadao Takashima, Yoko Fujiyama, Ken Uehara, Jun Tazaki, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 September 202420 November 2025 by Roog