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.
Kwaidan
as First Wife (segment "The Black Hair")Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...
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The Sword of Doom
as OhamaRyunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate...
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as MichikoKaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his...
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The End of Summer
as FumikoThe family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and...
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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...
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
as MichikoAfter the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria....
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Japan's Longest Day
as Yuriko HaraFollowing the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
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47 Ronin
as uncreditedAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
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The Twilight Story
as uncreditedIn this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing...
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Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
as TsutaeA jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light...
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The Heart
as Shizu, Nobuchi's wifeIn the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon...
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Samurai Assassin
as Okiku / Princess KikuJapan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the...
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Brand of Evil
as uncreditedA Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he...
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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
as NatsukoA salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into...
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The Thin Line
as Masako TashiroTashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in...
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Wife
as Yoshimi NiemuraTen years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success,...
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The Balloon
as Kumiko YamanaHaruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to...
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Structure of Hate
as uncreditedDrama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy...
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Summer Clouds
as uncreditedA war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes...
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Dancing Sisters
as uncreditedIt’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a...
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
as OshizuTraveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
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A Trap
as Michiko KônoWhen her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman...
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The Walking Major
as Mother YamadaU.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan,...
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
as uncreditedFrom runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
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Conflagration
as Mistress of the floral artLearning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the...
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
as uncreditedThree stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman...
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Hymn 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...
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The Baby Carriage
as Tomoko AizawaUpon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and...
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I 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...
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Victory and Defeat
as Sayoko TakamatsuAfter the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura),...
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Five Gents' Trick Book
as uncreditedThe 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
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Till We Meet Again
as Kyoko YamanaSonejiro sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is...
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The Tempters: Smile After Tears
as HisakoLayabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He...
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Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
as uncreditedIn this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.
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The Gambling Samurai
as Niko EnzoChuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate,...
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The Gambling Samurai
as TokuChuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate,...
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as uncreditedDramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
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The Gambler's Code
as OkinuOne of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who...
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Shingo'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...
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Three Faces of Love
as Fujiyo ShindoWhen a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take...
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The Hidden Profile
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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All About Marriage
as Keiko KakiuchiUltra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother")...
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The 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...
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Tsukiyo no kasa
as uncreditedHousewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in...
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Aoi Secret Book
as AsayoA Golden Age drama depicting the exploits of passionate patriot Uotaro Toge in the midst of a...
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The Samurai of Edo
as uncreditedThis historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during...
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Devil's Temple
as AizenAn abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a...
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Vanished Glory
as uncreditedIn the first group of Yoshitake Ichi and Taketatsu Sada Preparatory Training, the team leader...
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Crossroad
as Harumi OkiIse, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having...
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Swords and Brocade
as uncreditedA young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.
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The 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...
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Sky Scraper!
as uncreditedA film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
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Three Faces
as uncreditedFive years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma...
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The Dangerous Kiss
as uncreditedStarring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.
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Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
as Yukari Yoyogi (Tetsuharu's Wife)A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.
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Niji wo Oru
as 上原敏江The 26th NHK Asadora. Shimazaki Kayo is a woman from Hagi, Yamaguchi, who joins the Takarazuka...
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Wind, 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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Shin Heike Monogatari
as Gion no NyogoSet at the end of the 12th century when several wars for control of Japan disrupted a long era...
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