Kōju Murata Movies

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

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...

Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

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...

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 spearman who had long admired the samurai rises up after learning of cruelty of the samurai class.

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.

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.

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...

1946 Japanese movie

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

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