Hideo Murota Movies

Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.

Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the riva...

A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his...

A crime film released in 1965

Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He gained...

1962 Japanese movie

Sonny Chiba is a young gambler on the run. He pretends to be an innocent student, and is taken in by an honorable Yakuza in Tokyo's Asakusa district.

A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.

With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.

G-men of Japan fifth installment. A young detective, questioning a double suicide involving his police officer friend and a Turkish girl, travels all...

A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious d...

Sonny Chiba plays Kyokushin Karate founder Masutatsu Oyama, who unexpectedly arrives at a karate tournament in rags, but wins the tournament. After t...

Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attac...

Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.

After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.

Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be from Fukuoka wants to be shown around Tokyo and se...

Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against othe...

Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.