Michiyo Aratama
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michiyo Aratama (新珠 三千代, Aratama Michiyo, 15 January 1930 – 17 March 2001) was a Japanese actress who appeared in leading and supporting roles in such films as Hiroshi Inagaki's Chushingura, Kihachi Okamoto's Samurai Assassin and Sword of Doom, and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan, Hymn to a Tired Man and The Human Condition trilogy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michiyo Aratama, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as MichikoAfter handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...
Movie pageKwaidan
as First Wife (segment "The Black Hair")Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...
Movie pageThe Sword of Doom
as OhamaRyunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate...
Movie pageThe End of Summer
as FumikoThe family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and...
Movie pageThe Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as MichikoKaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his...
Movie pageConflagration
as Mistress of the floral artLearning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the...
Movie pageChûshingura
as uncreditedAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
Movie pageThe Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
as MichikoAfter the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria....
Movie pageJapan's Longest Day
as Yuriko HaraFollowing the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
Movie pageSamurai Assassin
as Okiku / Princess KikuJapan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the...
Movie pageHuman Revolution II
as uncreditedDramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
Movie pageSuzaki Paradise: Red Light District
as TsutaeA jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light...
Movie pageThe Heart
as Shizu, Nobuchi's wifeIn the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon...
Movie pageA Trap
as Michiko KônoWhen her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman...
Movie pagePoliceman's Diary, Part 2
as uncreditedFrom runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
Movie pageSummer Clouds
as uncreditedA war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes...
Movie pageThe Thin Line
as Masako TashiroTashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in...
Movie pageKawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
as Yukari Yoyogi (Tetsuharu's Wife)A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.
Movie pageFive Gents' Trick Book
as uncreditedThe 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
Movie pageThe Walking Major
as Mother YamadaU.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan,...
Movie pageThe Gambler's Code
as OkinuOne of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who...
Movie pageStructure of Hate
as uncreditedDrama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy...
Movie pageCold Rice, Osan, Chan
as uncreditedThree stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman...
Movie pageThe Samurai of Edo
as uncreditedThis historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during...
Movie pageThe Twilight Story
as uncreditedIn this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing...
Movie pageHymn to a Tired Man
as YosikoZensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war...
Movie pageHymn to a Tired Man
as Yoshiko HideZensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war...
Movie pageMuhō Ichidai
as uncreditedThe movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in...
Movie pageThe Baby Carriage
as Tomoko AizawaUpon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and...
Movie pageThe Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
as NatsukoA salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into...
Movie pageTill We Meet Again
as Kyoko YamanaJiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is...
Movie pageThe Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
as Akie NarumiSet in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three...
Movie pageWife
as Yoshimi NiemuraTen years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success,...
Movie pageAoi Secret Book
as AsayoA Golden Age drama depicting the exploits of passionate patriot Uotaro Toge in the midst of a...
Movie pageAll About Marriage
as Keiko KakiuchiUltra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother")...
Movie pageBrand of Evil
as uncreditedA Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he...
Movie pageTsukiyo no kasa
as uncreditedHousewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in...
Movie pageThe Hidden Profile
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
Movie pageDevil's Temple
as AizenAn abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a...
Movie pageTora-san, His Tender Love
as OshizuTraveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
Movie pageVanished Glory
as uncreditedIn the first group of Yoshitake Ichi and Taketatsu Sada Preparatory Training, the team leader...
Movie pageCasebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
as uncreditedIn this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.
Movie pageThe Tempters: Smile After Tears
as HisakoLayabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He...
Movie pageThe Balloon
as Kumiko YamanaHaruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to...
Movie pageI Want to Be a Shellfish
as Fusae ShimizuOn a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...
Movie pageThe Gambling Samurai
as Niko EnzoChuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate,...
Movie pageThe Gambling Samurai
as TokuChuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate,...
Movie pageSwords and Brocade
as uncreditedA young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.
Movie pageDancing Sisters
as uncreditedIt’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a...
Movie pageThe Dangerous Kiss
as uncreditedStarring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.
Movie pageSky Scraper!
as uncreditedA film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
Movie pageThree Faces of Love
as Fujiyo ShindoWhen a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take...
Movie pageThe Life of a Horse-Trader
as uncreditedHokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro...
Movie pageShingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
as uncreditedThese are the first two parts of the popular series in which a young samurai learns that he is...
Movie pageThree Faces
as uncreditedFive years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma...
Movie pageCrossroad
as Harumi OkiIse, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having...
Movie pageVictory and Defeat
as Sayoko TakamatsuAfter the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura),...
Movie pageNiji wo Oru
as 上原敏江The 26th NHK Asadora. Shimazaki Kayo is a woman from Hagi, Yamaguchi, who joins the Takarazuka...
TV Show pageShin Heike Monogatari
as Gion no NyogoSet at the end of the 12th century when several wars for control of Japan disrupted a long era...
TV Show pageWind, Clouds, and Rainbow
as MasakoKaze to kumo to Niji to deals with the Heian period in Japan. Based on Chōgorō Kaionji`s novels...
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