Michiko Araki
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The Whisper of Spring (1952)
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...

The Wild Sea (1969)
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...

Till Tomorow Comes (1962)
1962 Japanese movie

Dolls floating down the river (1962)
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...

Four Seasons of Women (1950)
Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

The Soundless Cry (1965)
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works...

Women Doing Time (1966)
Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Tokyo Air Raid Glass Rabbit (1979)
Based on an autobiographical novel by Toshiko Takagi, set close to the end of World War II

Bitterness of Youth (1974)
A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.

If You Were Young: Rage (1970)
If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the...

An Ode to Yakuza (1970)
Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her...

Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny (1970)
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...

Third Class Executives (1952)
1950s Japanese comedy.

The Scarred Angel (1966)
A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki,...

Red Beard (1965)
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...

Dodes'ka-den (1970)
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...

The Rokumeikan (1970)
TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.

Gate of Hell (1953)
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her,...

The House of Wooden Blocks (1968)
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...

Botchan (1977)
1977 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume Soseki's novel.

Raised in a Palace (1964)
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...

Human Torpedoes (1968)
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze (1968)
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight...

The Last Kamikaze (1970)
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji...

Rebellion of Japan (1967)
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...

Spring Dreams (1960)
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

The Class of the Sewage Canal (1972)
The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.

The Tattered Banner (1974)
Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan (1959)
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

Song of Farewell (1965)
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...

Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy (1972)
Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (1963)
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and...

The River Fuefuki (1960)
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

Structure of Hate (1961)
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.

The Second Love (1983)
Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult....

An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

The Navy (1963)
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his...

The Story of Pure Love (1957)
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...

Happiness of Us Alone (1961)
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

My Voiceless Friends (1972)
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.

A Second Life (1948)
1948 Japanese drama film.

Tomorrow (1988)
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of...

Tales of the Inner Chamber (1968)
Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.

Yume-Chiyo (1985)
Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left....

Chained Bitch (1965)
Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Mansaku no hana (1981)
The story follows the Nakamori family in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, where half of the year is buried by deep snow.

Akatsuki (1963)
The 3rd NHK Asadora. Starring Shin Saburi as a professor who quits the university to become a painter.