Michiko Araki Movies

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...

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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...

Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

1948 Japanese drama film.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

1950s Japanese comedy.

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

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...