Michiyo Aratama at Criticker

Michiyo Aratama
	Date of Birth: Jan 15, 1930 Country: Japan Total Films at Criticker: 15 - You've Seen 0
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Oni no sumu yakata (1969)

Summary: 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, known thoughout Japan as "Mumyo no Taro". 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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Nihon no seishun (1968)

Summary: During WWII a soldier is beaten so badly by a superior officer he is left deaf. After the war he is an inventor and meets this officer at the patent office. The man is still the bully he was. (imdb)

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The Sword of Doom (1966)

Summary: Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai without compassion or scruples. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencingschool, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade (imdb)

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The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)

Summary: A father with a steady home life that includes a wife and two children, is shocked to find that his friend’s wife has been killed. It becomes apparent that the father was busy having an affair with his friend’s wife right up until her death. While everyone is initially stumped to who the killer could be, it is slowly revealed that the aforementioned affair included kinky sex which may have led to the woman’s death. (CinemaTalk)

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Samurai Assassin (1965)

Summary: 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... (imdb)

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Kwaidan (1964)

Summary: This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money... (imdb)

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Eburi manshi no yûga-na seikatsu (1963)

Summary: A 36 year old man, bored by everything in his life, decides to write a story about his ordinary life for a magazine.

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The End of Summer (1961)

Summary: Ozu creates a picture about an entire family, enriching the several strands of his story with many anecdotes. The film is unusually rich in character vignettes: at the same time it is one of the director's bleakest films.

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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)

Summary: In this third part of the trilogy Kaji, a Japanese WWII soldier, finds himself struggling to survive behind enemy lines towards the end of the war.

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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)

Summary: Second part of a trilogy. Conscientious objector Kaji, now forced to serve in the Japanese army during the Second World War... (imdb)

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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)

Summary: First of a trilogy of films. During the Second World War, a Japanese conscientious objector named Kaji works as a supervisor in a Manchurian prison camp. He hopes to avoid duty as a soldier, but he also hopes to be helpful to the welfare of his prisoners. An escape attempt by Chinese prisoners results in Kaji's arrest for collusion. He faces the possibility of transferral to combat -- or worse

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Summer Clouds (1958)

Summary: 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 be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control. (imdb)

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Suzaki paradise: Akashingo (1956)

Summary: A young out of work Japanese couple ends up in Tokyo's red light district.

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Kokoro (1955)

Summary: Why does Nobuchi visit the grave of his old friend Kaji? Why is he so secretive with his wife Shizu ? And how does Nobuchi's friendship with the young student Hioki – for whom the older man acts as reluctant sensei – relate to his time with Kaji? As the Meiji Era draws to a close with the emperor's death and the suicide of General Nogi, a fateful tale of tainted love, failed friendship, and redemptive honor unravels with tragic consequences. (MoC)

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Tsuma (1953)

Summary: The competing husband and wife voiceovers that open the 1953 Mikio Naruse melodrama Wife set up a character dialectic that never comes to fruition and though the title suggests the resulting imbalance may be intentional, the film still plays out as a deeply flawed examination of marital discord. (Slant Magazine)

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