Michiyo Aratama

Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his ...

During WWII a soldier is beaten so badly by a superior officer he is left deaf. After the war he is an inventor and meets this officer at the ...

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

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained ...

An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two ...

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

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband’s lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can’t ...

As a conscript in war-time Japan’s military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals. Release: The Human ...

Learning of his family’s collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute ...

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year’s approaches. Release: Otoko wa tsurai yo Futen no Tora ...

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 ...

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. ...

The Kohayakawa family is thrown into distress when childlike father Manbei takes up with his old mistress, in one of Ozu’s most deftly ...

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning “ghost story,” this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai ...

A Japanese pacifist and socialist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise ...

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan’s military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival. ...

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

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried ...

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 ...

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 ...