Kōju Murata Movies

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

1946 Japanese movie

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

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...

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.

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.