Michiko Araki Movies

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.

1950s Japanese comedy.

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...

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

A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi...

1977 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume Soseki's novel.

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...

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

Based on an autobiographical novel by Toshiko Takagi, set close to the end of World War II

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...

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...

Japanese drama film.

1948 Japanese drama film.

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...