Kōju Murata Movies

Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.

A lighthearted and entertaining film that incorporates popuar songs into a period drama.

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.

A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film.

Lost film, directed by Tomu Uchida. This film is a very funny comedy that makes fun of the moral code of the samurai Bushido, which has become...

1946 Japanese movie

The sincere clown act performed by a master thief who infiltrates a remote island.

The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is a combination of a drama about a reporter, and...

A man rises in society by cheating, but the institutions in turn take their revenge.

A film adaptation of the story “Gonzo and Sukejū” from a new perspective.

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been...

Sweat (1929) is a slapstick riff on tendency-film themes, as a bored young millionaire has his clothes stolen by a tramp; dressed in the...

Chiyokichi, a young man, hates Cooper, a white man who looks down on the Japanese. Chiyokichi picks Cooper’s pocket and is caught. He is...

Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.

Itami, a young policeman, meets his high school friend, Tetsuo, a gangster, at a roadblock. As they rekindled their friendship, a complex...