Arata Shibata Movies

1959 Japanese movie

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a resu...

A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's majo...

When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women pr...

This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the s...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Kumazawa mistreats Sokichi a...

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather t...

A prisoner escapes from prison to find the real criminal.

1962 Japanese movie

Chie, who's chosen as 'Ms. Woman Diver', and her friend Yuki, have been missing for several days after they left for Tokyo to be interviewed by a maga...

In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of Shiray...

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the s...

Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.