Cinematography: Muneo Ueda

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Muneo Ueda. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Stray Cat Rock: Female Boss

1970 · Movie · 75 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Tatsuya Fuji · Meiko Kaji · Ken Sanders · Hanako Tokachi

Plot Yasuharu Hasebe developed and directed this first installment in a five-film series dealing with the adventures of all-girl motorcycle gangs. Mei, leader of an all-girl biker gang, inadvertently gets involved...

5.8

49 votes

5.8

49 votes

Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter

1970 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Meiko Kaji · Rikiya Yasuoka · Tatsuya Fuji · Jiro Okazaki

Plot Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter, the third in a series of five Stray Cat Rock films, stars hard-as-nails Meiko Kaji (Yakuza Burial, Female Convict Scorpion) as the leader of a...

5.8

52 votes

5.8

52 votes

Monster from a Prehistoric Planet

1967 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Tamio Kawaji · Yôko Yamamoto · Tatsuya Fuji · Yûji Odaka

Plot An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile...

3.7

26 votes

3.7

26 votes

Roughneck

1969 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Tsuneo Aoki · Tatsuya Fuji · Rika Fujie · Keiko Hara

Plot Yasuharu Hasebe directed this fiercely kinetic tale of wannabe yakuza youths (Akira Kobayashi, Tatsuya Fuji, et al.). When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Kobayashi develops a crush on...

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Champion Joe

1980 · Movie · 153 min. · Japan

Direction Yoichiro Fukuda · Yasuharu Hasebe

Plot While serving his sentence in a Tokyo juvenile detention center, a wandering orphaned slum-dog enters the world of professional boxing after befriending an incarcerated pugilistic prodigy.

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Retaliation

1968 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Jô Shishido · Hideaki Nitani · Tamio Kawaji

Plot Jiro, an ex-convict, comes back to the street after eight years. The gang to which he belonged is nearly disbanded; only the aging boss in his sick bed remains. Still...

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Bloody Territories

1969 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Ryoji Hayama · Tadao Nakamaru · Hiroshi Nawa

Plot A Yazuka group that once held immense power is broken up after authorities begin to come down hard on the area's heavy crime -- with the exception of one subsidiary...

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Not rated