Ryōhei Uchida Movies

Japanese crime film

In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local...

A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case....

Just before the final of the ski championships in Kanbayashi, Iba Shunsuke and Kito Tatsuo are hit by an avalanche. Kito Tatsuo's brother Yoichi is...

A story about club hostesses in Osaka.

1962 Japanese movie

Eight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan and begin their actions in secret, making full use of...

A hit-man returns to Japan after a long sojourne.

Third and last movie in the Yakuza Hijoshi trilogy.

On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her...

Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent...

Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during...

Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from prison and is determined to start life anew. But...

Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.

In the end of 19th century Japan, followers of judo and jujitsu battle for supremacy in Japanese martial arts.

12th in the Joe of Aces series.

Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.

Historical action film about the struggle for gold of two feudal clans in the Edo period.

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...