Movies: Michiyo Aratama

  • 1965
    Kwaidan

    Kwaidan (1965)

    Kwaidan

    7.61965HD

    Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue come...

    Kwaidan
  • 1959
    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    8.01959HD

    After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his...

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
  • 1959
    The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

    The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)

    The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

    8.11959HD

    Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defect...

    The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
  • 1966
    The Sword of Doom

    The Sword of Doom (1966)

    The Sword of Doom

    7.71966HD

    Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness....

    The Sword of Doom
  • 1961
    The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

    The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)

    The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

    8.41961HD

    After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sn...

    The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
  • 1961
    The End of Summer

    The End of Summer (1961)

    The End of Summer

    7.51961HD

    The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth....

    The End of Summer
  • 1962
    47 Ronin

    47 Ronin (1962)

    47 Ronin

    7.31962HD

    After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor....

    47 Ronin
  • 1965
    Samurai Assassin

    Samurai Assassin (1965)

    Samurai Assassin

    7.31965HD

    Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune....

    Samurai Assassin
  • 1967
    Japan's Longest Day

    Japan's Longest Day (1967)

    Japan's Longest Day

    7.11967HD

    Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to ...

    Japan's Longest Day
  • 1958
    Summer Clouds

    Summer Clouds (1958)

    Summer Clouds

    7.51958HD

    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 out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang...

    Summer Clouds
  • 1953
    Wife

    Wife (1953)

    Wife

    71953HD

    Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well ...

    Wife
  • 1958
    Conflagration

    Conflagration (1958)

    Conflagration

    7.01958HD

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

    Conflagration
  • 1970
    Tora-san, His Tender Love

    Tora-san, His Tender Love (1970)

    Tora-san, His Tender Love

    71970HD

    Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches....

    Tora-san, His Tender Love
  • 1965
    Five Gents' Trick Book

    Five Gents' Trick Book (1965)

    Five Gents' Trick Book

    01965HD

    The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series....

    Five Gents' Trick Book
  • 1963
    The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

    The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (1963)

    The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

    5.91963HD

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

    The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
  • 1960
    The Masterless 47

    The Masterless 47 (1960)

    The Masterless 47

    01960HD

    Part one of The Masterless 47....

    The Masterless 47
  • 1962
    続サラリーマン清水港

    続サラリーマン清水港 (1962)

    続サラリーマン清水港

    01962HD

    1962 Japanese movie...

    続サラリーマン清水港
  • 1966
    The Thin Line

    The Thin Line (1966)

    The Thin Line

    7.31966HD

    Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wif...

    The Thin Line
  • 1960
    The Gambling Samurai

    The Gambling Samurai (1960)

    The Gambling Samurai

    6.31960HD

    Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's family. A final tragedy leads Kunisada to join with a band of rogues living in the forest in robbin...

    The Gambling Samurai
  • 1965
    Cold Rice, Osan, Chan

    Cold Rice, Osan, Chan (1965)

    Cold Rice, Osan, Chan

    6.41965HD

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

    Cold Rice, Osan, Chan