Michiyo Aratama — Actor (18)
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Kwaidan (1965) [Movie] TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
怪談
8.8 (5 ratings) director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Michiyo Aratama / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: Kwaidan - Storie di fantasmi / Kwaïdan …
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
人間の條件　第１部純愛篇／第２部激怒篇
director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: La Condizione Umana: Parte I – Nessun amore è più grande / Guerra e Humanidade I: Não Há Amor Maior …
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
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Chûshingura (1962) [Movie] TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
忠臣蔵 花の巻・雪の巻
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Matsumoto Hakuō I / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: 47 Samurai / 47 Ronin …
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
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The End of Summer (1961) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
小早川家の秋
director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Setsuko Hara / Yōko Tsukasa …
other title: L'autunno della famiglia Kohayagawa / 小早川家の秋 …
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.
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
人間の條件　完結篇
director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: La Condizione Umana: Parte III – La preghiera del soldato / 人間の條件　完結篇 …
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
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The End of Summer (1961) [Movie]
小早川家の秋
director: 小津安二郎 actor: 中村雁治郎 / 原节子 …
other title: 小早川家之秋 / 小早川家の秋 …
酿酒屋主人万兵卫（中村雁治郎 饰）妻子过世，育有两女文子与纪子（司叶子 饰），儿媳秋子（原节子 饰）寡居多时，公公家的亲戚好意为其牵线，但秋子似乎并未上心。相形之下，万兵卫的心态倒是颇为活跃，频频密会一度分别的老情人佐佐木，万兵卫与佐佐木的女儿百合子长大成人，可这位约会美国男友的时髦姑娘关心礼物胜过关心万兵卫是否是自己的亲生父亲……文子对父亲的行为颇为不满却又无可奈何。与纪子互有情意的青年远赴札幌工作，两人只能借书信传递挂念。儿媳与女儿的婚事一时间没有进展的希望，这时万兵卫却因心肌梗塞而晕倒，不久转醒过来的酿酒屋老板，又再次匆匆奔向情人的家中……
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb
人間の條件　第３部望郷篇／第４部戦雲篇
director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: La Condizione Umana: Parte II – Cammino verso l'eternità / Guerra e Humanidade II: Estrada Para a Eternidade …
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
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Japan's Longest Day (1967) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
日本のいちばん長い日
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Seiji Miyaguchi / Rokkō Toura …
other title: The Emperor and a General / Le jour le plus long du Japon …
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
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Devil's Temple (1969) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
鬼の棲む舘
director: 三隅研次 actor: 胜新太郎 / 高峰秀子 …
other title: 鬼栖寺 / 鬼の棲む舘 …
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 women, and a vicious killer. Bloody violence erupts whenever strangers approach the temple. Can the traveling priest bring his belief in the Buddha and rid the three temple residents of the devils that hold their souls?
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Crossroad (1956) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB
死の十字路
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: 死の十字路
Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt to perfect his crime, he drives to a remote quarry to bury his wife’s body, but along the way, he finds another dead body in the back of his car! Given no choice, Ise dumps both bodies. Meanwhile, Yoshie begins her search for her missing brother, Yoshihiko. After surprising twists and turns, Ise faces his fate.
1950s filmnoir japan
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The Thin Line (1966) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
女の中にいる他人
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: Lo straniero dentro una donna / L'Étranger à l'intérieur d'une femme …
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.
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Conflagration (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
炎上
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: Conflagrazione / Le Pavillon d'Or …
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.
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Tora-san, His Tender Love (1970) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
男はつらいよ フーテンの寅
director: Azuma Morisaki actor: Kiyoshi Atsumi / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: Le grand amour / 男はつらいよ フーテンの寅 …
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
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Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
洲崎パラダイス　赤信号
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Michiyo Aratama / Yukiko Todoroki …
other title: Susaki Paradise - Red Light District / Le Paradis de Suzaki …
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 pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older woman, while Yoshigi is shunted off into a nearby noodle shop, where he gets a job delivering noodles. Tsutue charms and runs off with one of her clients. Yoshigi, ignoring the attentions of a sweet co-worker, pursues Tsutue.