Michiko Araki Movies

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...

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of...

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...

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

1977 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume Soseki's novel.

Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.

Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

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