Kōju Murata Movies

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

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

This film, which was recommended by the Ministry of Education, is based on the Malaya Campaign and the Battle of Singapore and was produced to boost...

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

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

1946 Japanese movie

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 band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.

Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...