Michiko Araki

Akatsuki

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

Red Beard

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his fir...

Mansaku no hana

The story follows the Nakamori family in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, where half of the year is buried by deep sno...

Dodes'ka-den

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an ima...

Gate of Hell

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprisi...

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of...

Spring Dreams

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are...

An Inlet of Muddy Water

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult...

Happiness of Us Alone

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion,...

Till Tomorrow Is

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

The House of Wooden Blocks

On his return from school, young Ichiro finds his father in bed with his adopted sister, Namie. Enraged, he dec...

Raised in a Palace

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending...

The Last Kamikaze

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide atta...

Human Torpedoes

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

The Second Love

Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conf...

The River Fuefuki

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant f...

The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze

The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about be...

Bitterness of Youth

A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.

A Second Life

1948 Japanese drama film.

The Story of Pure Love

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society...

My Voiceless Friends

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the be...

Song of Farewell

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in th...

The Soundless Cry

Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is...

Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy

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

The Navy

A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to f...

Yume-Chiyo

Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive...

Tomorrow

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru I...

Structure of Hate

Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequ...

Shanghai Rose

If You Were Young: Rage

If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of y...

Third Class Executives

1950s Japanese comedy.

Rebellion of Japan

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives f...

The Scarred Angel

A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and re...

Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny

Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few o...

Women Doing Time

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Four Seasons of Women

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda