Michiyo Aratama Movies

As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by local pleasures and personal entanglements. By...

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job...

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

1962 Japanese movie

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

Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two...

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.

A Japanese adaption of the story of the Prodigal Son.

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 this outing, Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo 70.

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

A film by Shinobu Hashimoto.

Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a young woman’s relationship with...

Executives from a Japanese department store travel to Hawaii to acquire land for expansion but become entangled in romantic distractions and...

Part one of The Masterless 47.

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

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

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