Kōju Murata Movies

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

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large...

Depicting the lives and spirit of geisha during and after the war.

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...

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

During the 20s in Japan, a romantic student at Tokyo's Waseda University is filled with noble sentiments absorbed from literature but his naive...

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...

Second part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto.

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

1946 Japanese movie

Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

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.

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

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...

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...

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