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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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03 August 1985
A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countryside.
01 June 1985
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
26 November 1988
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life.
11 June 1964
When hopeful Olympic triple-jump competitor injures both his Achilles tendons, he discovers an old manuscript about self-confidence to join the best company in Japan try to triple-jump his way to the top and marry the company model (Mie Hama) in the bargain.
20 December 1964
A comedy directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, based on an original idea by Koji Toita, co-written by Yasuo Tanami, who worked on "Hibari Chiemi Izumi Sannin Yoba" and Kajiro Yamamoto, who worked on "The Story of a Genius Swindler: Tanuki no Hanamichi.
05 June 1982
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.
15 September 1962
Mie Nakao runs away from home to join her older sister's production company as a new talent. We follow her ups and downs on the way to stardom as she falls in love with two men, a petty thief and a music writer and teacher, and makes her way in the industry alongside The Peanuts and The Crazy Cats.
31 October 1964
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Hitoshi Ueki) starts out as Nobunaga's "Sandal Keeper" but climbs the ranks to eventually become a trusted general.
31 December 1967
The fifth installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series.
31 December 1971
The last (10th) Toho "Crazy film" in the Nippon Ichi series.
24 June 1984
Shortly after moving to the suburbs, the Kobayashis start to come undone. Convinced a family curse is at the root of their erratic behavior, the man of the house takes it upon himself to course-correct before it takes the last of their sanity.
09 June 1990
Based on the non-fiction books by Takushi Ono (the NHK announcer, not the gymnast) and Yoshinari Tobe.
27 April 1968
The eleventh film in the comedy series starring Japan's leading comedy group, the Crazy Cats. Susumu Sakamori and his friends travel to Mexico to find a stone statue that contains the location of the secret treasure "Olmeca".
15 April 1962
1962 Japanese movie
15 August 1987
Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time.
02 August 1980
1980 Japanese film.
16 June 2007
Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in life is to play a party game called "yakyuken" with one.
15 January 1963
An ad campaign for a TV show called the “Male Training Contest” stirs chaos at a major electronics company.
01 April 1962
1962 Japanese movie
31 December 1970
The ninth installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series.
25 March 1962
1962 Japanese movie based on the Crazy Cats smash hit single, "Sudara Festival", sung by Hitoshi Ueki.
20 October 1962
1962 Japanese movie
30 May 1987
It depicts a young man who challenges a 2600km traverse of Japan from Hidaka in Hokkaido to Kagoshima in Kyushu with Hokkaido horses.
31 October 1965
After being mistaken for counterfeiters by the police, an inventor and reporter try to track down the real counterfeiters.
23 December 1962
Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".
27 April 1969
Chaos ensues when a secret agent gathers a group of criminals (The Crazy Cats) to steal gold from a bank.
26 October 1963
Seven employees rise up in rebellion against an irresponsible company.
28 October 1967
International thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles rival thief WCWC for a rare gold samurai sword.
15 April 1962
1962 Japanese movie
16 March 1966
The film depicts Ueki's all-around intelligence and how he manages to do difficult jobs for the company without a fixed salary and how he marries Mie Hamamie, the president's daughter, in a well-told story.
28 May 1966
A film produced by Toho and Watanabe Productions as part of the Crazy Movie project featuring The Crazy Cats comedy group and jazz band members.
15 January 1970
The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retired from the team) for one last feature, Jun Ichikawa's odd Memories of You (Kaisha mono-gatari, 1988) released by Shochiku.
14 January 1967
Saburo Sarutobi, a former member of the Zengakuren, and Maruo Inumaruo, a former member of the police force, have joined two rival companies, Toyotomi Denki and Tokugawa Musen, respectively, and have been at each other's throats at every turn.
29 October 1966
The Crazy Cats try to steal 1,000,000,000 yen in laundered Yakuza money.
23 September 1995
People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck.
03 January 1966
Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison.
13 July 1963
The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but decided to try his luck in the cosmetics business, and became the best salesman anyone had ever seen.
02 November 1968
The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man".
11 July 1964
The members of Crazy Cats play employees of a trading company. Ueda Hitoshi of Awa Shoji, a lucky man who never loses a bet, and the managing director, a gambling fanatic, are scammed in a business deal and set off for Macau where the mastermind, Chang, is located for a gambling showdown.
15 March 1961
1961 Japanese movie
30 May 1964
A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.
24 March 1963
After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural vitality, they solve one dispute after another.
13 July 1970
The eighth installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series.
28 May 1982
Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal lord and travel to Edo.
28 April 1967
The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s.
27 July 1962
An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.
03 January 2003
A 2003 version of the 1962 original. Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
12 May 1962
The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit melody of the Hajime Hana and the Crazy Cats.
24 August 1960
Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act.
01 January 1969
When the yakuza murder a bar hostess who, through a computer error, had amassed a huge fortune , the Crazy Cats make a robot duplicate of her.
28 June 1986
A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.
22 December 1963
Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.
29 April 1971
A con man defrauds a small rural town, sparking an international manhunt.
11 August 1962
Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong vs.
01 November 1969
Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.
