Michiko Araki Movies

On his return from school, young Ichiro finds his father in bed with his adopted sister, Namie. Enraged, he decides to outdo his father in terms of...

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair...

Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.

Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

1950s Japanese comedy.

Sugiko Tsutsui, who works at a small publishing company on the verge of bankruptcy, became engaged four years ago to Tsuneo Oda, a factory worker at...

Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attempted surgery and years of struggle, her...

Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Japanese drama film.

1977 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume Soseki's novel.

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a...

Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But...

After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt...

1948 Japanese drama film.

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.