Michiyo Aratama Movies

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job...

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to...

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying...

Film directed by Kenji Misumi.

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...

Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more...

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

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

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

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

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...

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women,...

Yasue (Todoroki) and Fumikichi (Oda), a married couple, have no children, but they take in children from other places and wind up raising three kids.

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.