Michiko Araki
Birthday: 1917-03-06
Place of Birth: Misakicho, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Michiko Araki (荒木道子) was born on March 6, 1917. She was an actress, known for Yakuza zesshô (1970), Red Beard (1965) and Jun'ai monogatari (1957). She died on March 24, 1989.
Movies
The Whisper of Spring
After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went ...
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The Wild Sea
Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his ...
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As Long as There's Tomorrow
Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attemp...
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Dolls floating down the river
A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chiek...
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The Soundless Cry
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one h...
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Tokyo Air Raid Glass Rabbit
Based on an autobiographical novel by Toshiko Takagi, set close to the end of World War II...
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Bitterness of Youth
A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes a...
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If You Were Young: Rage
If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the t...
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An Ode to Yakuza
Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beauti...
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny
Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slash...
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The Scarred Angel
A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention ce...
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Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
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Dodes'ka-den
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “dri...
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Gate of Hell
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a vio...
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The House of Wooden Blocks
On his return from school, young Ichiro finds his father in bed with his adopted sister, Namie. Enra...
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Raised in a Palace
Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl...
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dre...
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Human Torpedoes
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of th...
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The Last Kamikaze
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up s...
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Rebellion of Japan
Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisal...
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Spring Dreams
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home...
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The Class of the Sewage Canal
The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their mi...
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father,...
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Song of Farewell
After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he l...
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Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last da...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw gen...
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The River Fuefuki
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poo...
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Structure of Hate
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over ...
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The Second Love
Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emo...
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about th...
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The Navy
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining th...
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The Story of Pure Love
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling again...
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Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a scho...
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My Voiceless Friends
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visi...
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Tomorrow
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by ...
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Tales of the Inner Chamber
Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle....
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Yume-Chiyo
Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something c...
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Chained Bitch
Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series...
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