Hideo Murota Movies

Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He likes to gamble, although he doesn't have a...

Sonny Chiba's first martial arts film, a partially fictionalized judo biopic based on prominent judoka Shiro Saigo (Chiba), the second student of...

#13 in the series, after the Special Movie.

The love and friendships of high school students

The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends...

A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.

Ayumi Ishida won the Blue Ribbon for the Best Actress.

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.

In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.

Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.

Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.

The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.

A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a...

Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.