Michiyo Aratama Movies

After years of living a comfortable existence as a housewife, Aki starts to suspect that her husband is hiding something.

As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by local pleasures and personal entanglements. By...

A privileged son betrays his family for the favors of a geisha in 18th century Osaka.

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intended to revive struggling sales.

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained...

A Japanese adaption of the story of the Prodigal Son.

One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of...

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

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.

A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency, where...

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yonetaro fell asleep after being kicked by a sick...

A Golden Age drama depicting the exploits of passionate patriot Uotaro Toge in the midst of a mysterious standoff over the Secret Book of Aoi, which...

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

As his fashion company rides a wave of post-recession success, President Kurihara seeks to expand into women’s apparel through a deepening...