Michiyo Aratama
Birthday: 1930-01-15
Place of Birth: Nara, Nara, Japan
Biography: 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.
Movies
The Life of a Horse-Trader
Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yone...
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Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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Three Faces
Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichir...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, K...
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Inte...
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The End of Summer
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his ...
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Victory and Defeat
After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Y...
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The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters w...
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The Sword of Doom
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...
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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into tel...
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Samurai Assassin
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakura...
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Conflagration
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golde...
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The Heart
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon rea...
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The Thin Line
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which ...
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Devil's Temple
An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fate...
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Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens....
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Hymn to a Tired Man
Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war off...
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches....
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Sky Scraper!
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan....
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The Gambler's Code
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds...
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Aoi Secret Book
A Golden Age drama depicting the exploits of passionate patriot Uotaro Toge in the midst of a myster...
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Wife
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, mean...
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Tsukiyo no kasa
Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a re...
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A Trap
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shar...
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Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to i...
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The Balloon
Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami...
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Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light distric...
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying...
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Called to the Stand
Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzle...
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The Twilight Story
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing ...
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The Gambling Samurai
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has be...
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The Gambling Samurai
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has be...
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Once a Rainy Day
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth an...
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Brand of Evil
A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is par...
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Three Faces of Love
When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over...
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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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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
A young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite with his bir...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husban...
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Crossroad
Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an ...
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Till We Meet Again
Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappoin...
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The Baby Carriage
Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her ch...
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Dancing Sisters
It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a smal...
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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All About Marriage
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, e...
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The Tempters: Smile After Tears
Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and hi...
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The Walking Major
U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambli...
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station....
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The Samurai of Edo
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition f...
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Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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Vanished Glory
In the first group of Yoshitake Ichi and Taketatsu Sada Preparatory Training, the team leader was So...
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Muhō Ichidai
The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the la...
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Hymn to a Tired Man
Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war off...
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Moonlight in the Rain
A home drama about a mother and her three daughters, based on the novel by Fumiko Hayashi....
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New Third-Class Executive
At an Osaka electronics company, power struggles, corporate schemes, and personal agendas collide wh...
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New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressu...
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New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller
World Electric's top ad model disappears, throwing the company into disarray. A fortune-teller’s inf...
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New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to...
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Playboy President
A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intend...
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Company President Travels Abroad
Executives from a Japanese department store travel to Hawaii to acquire land for expansion but becom...
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Company President Travels Abroad Part II
As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by loc...
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President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
Iwato Construction secures a major project in Hokkaido and promotes a key employee, but chaos follow...
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A Company President's Life Story
A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by secu...
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Five Gents on the Spot
As his fashion company rides a wave of post-recession success, President Kurihara seeks to expand in...
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Discover Japan with the 5 Gents
In this outing, Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo 70....
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Five Gents Prefer Geisha
In this continuation of Discover Japan with the 5 Gents (Shacho sen ichiya, 1967), Shoji (Morishige)...
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Modern Salaryman: Bushido Romance
Three young employees navigate love, ambition, and meddling bosses as workplace crushes evolve into ...
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The Oil-Hell Murder
A privileged son betrays his family for the favors of a geisha in 18th century Osaka....
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Daybreak Chorus
In a small town, Tomoko, a new bus conductor, works hard to prove herself. She crosses paths with Sa...
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