Michiko Araki Movies

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...

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the...

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...

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

1948 Japanese drama film.

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

A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

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

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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

Based on an autobiographical novel by Toshiko Takagi, set close to the end of World War II

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...

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...