Michiyo Aratama

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1930-01-15 (71 years old)

Deathday

2001-03-17

Place of Birth

Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Michiyo Aratama

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.

Acting

1965

Kwaidan

as First Wife (segment "The Black Hair")

1961

1960

Victory and Defeat

as Sayoko Takamatsu

1966

1965

Samurai Assassin

as Okiku / Princess Kiku

1958

Conflagration

as Mistress of the floral art

1955

The Heart

as Shizu, Nobuchi's wife

1966

The Thin Line

as Masako Tashiro

1969

1968

1960

The Masterless 47

as Geisha Kayoji

1958

A Boy and Three Mothers

as The Real Mother

1961

1958

1953

Wife

as Yoshimi Niemura

1965

A Trap

as Michiko Kôno

1956

The Balloon

as Kumiko Yamana

1960

1964

Brand of Evil

as Asai Setsuko

1967

Three Faces of Love

as Fujiyo Shindo

1957

Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16

as Yukari Yoyogi (Tetsuharu's Wife)

1959

I Want to Be a Shellfish

as Fusae Shimizu

1956

Crossroad

as Harumi Oki

1955

Till We Meet Again

as Kyoko Yamana

1956

The Baby Carriage

as Tomoko Aizawa

1958

All About Marriage

as Keiko Kakiuchi

1962

Get Married, Mother

as Mitsuyo Kawamoto

1970

The Walking Major

as Mother Yamada

1967

Japan's Longest Day

as Yuriko Hara

1968

Hymn to a Tired Man

as Yoshiko Hide

1959

1961

Playboy President

as Geisha Hyōtan

1963

Company President Travels Abroad

as Kiyoko (Madam of Sakura-tei, Hawaii)

1963

Company President Travels Abroad Part II

as Kiyoko (Madam of Sakura-tei, Hawaii)

1965

President's Ninja Trick Book Part II

as Sumie (Bar Marimo Madame)

1966

A Company President's Life Story

as Machiko (Osaka Bar Madam)

1967

Discover Japan with the 5 Gents

as Suzuko (Bar Madam)

1967

Five Gents Prefer Geisha

as Suzuko (Bar Madam)

1963

Yushu Heiya

as Misako

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