List of the best Michiyo Aratama movies: Samurai Assassin(1965), Kokoro(1955), Kwaidan(1964), The Human Condition 2: The Road to Eternity(1959), The Sword of Doom(1966), The End of Summer(1962) ... ...
Action
Japan
1965
122 Minutes
Okiku, Kikuhime
Michiyo Aratama Susumu Fujita Chusha Ichikawa Yunosuke Ito Keiju Kobayashi Koshiro Matsumoto Toshirô Mifune Takashi Shimura Haruko Sugimura Nami Tamura Kaoru Yachigusa
February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled ... See full summary »
Drama
Japan
1955
120 Minutes
Michiyo Aratama Tatsuya Mihashi Masayuki Mori Akiko Tamura Shôji Yasui
teacher student best friend husband wife moving tender sad passionate japan family home cemetery countryside suicide marriage teaching spirituality friendship betrayal transformation
At the end of Meiji era a young student befriend an older man who as a proof of trust but also as a kind of exorcism entrust him his secret, a story about jealousy, betrayal, shame and guilt.
Horror, Fantasy
Japan
1964
164 Minutes
First wife
Rentarô Mikuni Michiyo Aratama Tetsuro Tamba Katsuo Nakamura Keiko Kishi
author samurai wife musician ghost victim creative striking japan countryside teahouse family home ghosts folklore supernatural quest metamorphosis mystery unknown era
A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.
War, Drama, History
1959
112 Minutes
Tatsuya Nakadai Michiyo Aratama Minoru Chiaki Izumi Hara Kaneko Iwasaki Kokinji Katsura Yusuke Kawazu Hideo Kidokoro Mayumi Kurata Michio Minami Taketoshi Naito
Drama
Japan
1966
122 Minutes
Ohama
Tatsuya Nakadai Toshirô Mifune Yûzô Kayama Michiyo Aratama Ichirô Nakatani Yôko Naitô Kei Satô
samurai competitor brother mistress assassin intense chilling japan geisha house madness dueling ghosts revenge wretched excess rivalry adventure ancient times
Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.
Drama, Romance
Japan
1962
103 Minutes
Fumiko, eldest daughter
Ganjirô Nakamura Setsuko Hara Yoko Tsukasa Keiju Kobayashi Michiyo Aratama Chieko Naniwa Daisuke Kato
father daughter mistress son-in-law grandson emotional melodramatic kyoto, japan household brewery aging father/daughter relationship family deception sister relationship romance love discovery 1960s
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.