Michiko Araki Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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

1962 Japanese movie

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

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...