Michiyo Aratama

Michiyo Aratama
Aratama in 1955
Born	Kyoko Toda (1930-01-15)January 15, 1930 Nara, Japan
Died	March 17, 2001(2001-03-17) (aged 71) Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1946–2001

Michiyo Aratama (新珠 三千代, Aratama Michiyo, birth name Kyoko Toda 戸田 馨子, 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: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki, Kihachi Okamoto's Samurai Assassin and Sword of Doom, and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan, Hymn to a Tired Man and The Human Condition trilogy. She died of heart failure in 2001.

Filmography

Films

• The Balloon (1956)
• Suzaki paradise: Akashingō (1956)
• A Holiday in Tokyo (1958)
• Enjō (1958)
• The Human Condition (1959-1961)
• The End of Summer (1961)
• Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki (1962)
• The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (1963)
• Kwaidan (1964)
• Samurai Assassin (1965)
• The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)
• Sword of Doom (1966)
• Lost Spring (1967)
• Hymn to a Tired Man (1968)

Television

• Shin Heike Monogatari (1972)
• Kaze to Kumo to Niji to (1976)

External links

• Michiyo Aratama at IMDb