Michiko Araki

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

A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry. Release: Bitterness of Youth 1974 1080p ...

Masumura’s 40th film, for which he collaborated on the script, shows plot irrationality perhaps due to the newspaper serial original, ...

Three short tales from stories by Ichiyo Higuchi. In one, a young woman is degraded by her family after an arranged marriage. Another deals with ...

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 ...

Kazumi – whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband’s emotional conflicts with the wisdom ...

Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending ...

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge ...

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 ...

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 ...