Michiko Araki Movies

1948 Japanese drama film.

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...

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.

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

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

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

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...

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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...

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

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

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...

The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.

Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

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

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

1950s Japanese comedy.