Kōju Murata Movies

A bold and cheerful tale that broke new ground in the historical drama genre.

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

While returning by boat to Japan, Yoshie Fujiwara meets a rich woman who suggests him to become a singer thanks to an impresario friend of hers.

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...

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...

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

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.

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

1946 Japanese movie