Michiko Araki Movies

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...

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

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

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...

1950s Japanese comedy.

1962 Japanese movie

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

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...

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...

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

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

Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

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...

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...

On his return from school, young Ichiro finds his father in bed with his adopted sister, Namie. Enraged, he decides to outdo his father in terms of...

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