Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Yusuke Kawazu · Tamao Nakamura

Plot The protagonist is the pacifistic Kaji. Strong-armed into the Japanese military during World War II, Kaji has reluctantly learned to kill on the battlefields. Upon his country's surrender, Kaji and...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Ineko Arima · Chikage Awashima

Plot During the Second World War, Kaji, a japanese pacifist, tries to avoid military service by accepting a job as a supervisor in the mines of Manchuria, in occupied territory. Kaji...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Kei Sato · Minoru Chiaki

Plot Second World War. Forced to join the japanese army, Kaji is sent to Manchuria. There, he becomes friends with a soldier who sympathizes with communism. After a visit from his...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Ganjiro Nakamura · Setsuko Hara · Yôko Tsukasa · Michiyo Aratama

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Katsuo Nakamura · Kei Sato

Plot This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Shirô Amakusa · Michiyo Aratama · Izumi Ashikawa · Keiko Azuma

Plot Haruki Murakami (Masayuki Mori), once lionized as a master painter, is now the president of a thriving camera company where his son Keikichi (Tatsuya Mihashi) is also employed as one...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Michiyo Aratama · Mitsuko Kusabue · Tatsuya Mihashi

Plot Although Naruse demonstrated mastery of both color and cinemascope in his 60s films, he reverted to black-andd-white Academy format for his antepenultimate film. Perhaps this use of a conservative format...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Tatsuya Mihashi · Akira Takarada · Koshiro Matsumoto

Plot A young lord attempts to combat the official corruption endemic to the Shogunate, only to be placed in an impossible conflict of duties. He refuses to bribe a Chancelor who...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Yûzô Kayama · Michiyo Aratama · Toshirô Mifune

Plot Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai without compassion or scruples. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Chikage Awashima · Michiyo Aratama · Yôko Tsukasa · Daisuke Kato

Plot A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Mieko Takamine · Ken Uehara · Rentarô Mikuni · Michiyo Aratama

Plot Tsuma concerns the struggles of a woman who finds out that her husband is cheating on her; to avoid the stigma of a broken marriage, she decides she'll do whatever...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Masayuki Mori · Michiyo Aratama · Tatsuya Mihashi · Shoji Yasui

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Michiyo Aratama · Yukiko Todoroki · Seizaburô Kawazu · Tatsuya Mihashi

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Keiju Kobayashi · Michiyo Aratama · Yûnosuke Itô

Plot 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 in...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Tatsuya Nakadai · Ganjiro Nakamura · Yoichi Funaki

Plot Told in an intricate flashback structure, Enjo dramatizes the psychological collapse of Goichi (Raizo Ichikawa), a young Buddhist acolyte from a dysfunctional family who arrives at a Kyoto temple -...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Michiyo Aratama · Tatsuyoshi Ehara · Hiroshi Tachikawa

Plot A man with an ordinary life gets drunk and announces that he will write something for a magazine. After he sobers up, he writes a novella, using himself as a...

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Asami Kuji · Keiju Kobayashi · Yôko Tsukasa

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Michiyo Aratama · Takashi Shimura · Haruko Sugimura

Plot A yakuza man helps attacking a man out of obligation but also promise to take care of his family a he finds out the boss killed the man to get...

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Michiyo Kogure · Wakaba Irie · Shoichi Ozawa

Plot Nakamura Kinnosuke takes on three separate roles in three short stories by noted author Yamamoto Shugoro. In "Hiyameshi", a youngster becomes aware of the difficulties to realize his dream of...

Direction Seiichiro Uchikawa

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Yuji Matsuzaki · Noboru Takahisa · Michiyo Aratama