Michiyo Aratama Movies

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

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

Based on Haruko Ōta's memoir.

In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of...

Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign - Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi...

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in...

In postwar Osaka’s bustling textile district, a tough and highly rational moneylender named Katsumi builds a successful lending business in a...

1960 Japanese movie

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

Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress...

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.

After the father of her son leaves her high and dry, Kazuko gives her child up for adoption and takes a job at a hot spring resort, watching her son...