Michiko Araki Movies

Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

When he was a little boy, Tokitō Kensaku was sent to live with his paternal grandfather and his mistress Oei. Years later, Kensaku realizes he...

Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki,...

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

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

Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he's released in...

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 her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part...

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

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...

1950s Japanese comedy.

Japanese drama film.

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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

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...

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...