Hideo Murata Movies

Upon his release from the prison, Hishakaku joins the Kikkyo family who is struggling to regain their turf from their rival, Domoto family. To...

The beginning of the Showa period. A town in the Kanto region. During the autumn festival, a car from Daihoji Senzo hit a child and left. Upon...

A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.

Based on a popular play from 1947.

1961 Japanese movie

Inosuke, a former gangster, and his friends struggle to make a living as simple fishermen in this tale of chivalry and friendship among yakuza in the...

A low ranking yakuza who spends more time enjoying life than doing the yakuza work falls in love with a pretty student girl, whose brother later gets...

Sonny Chiba's first martial arts film, a partially fictionalized judo biopic based on prominent judoka Shiro Saigo (Chiba), the second student of...

The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend Risaburo.

This is Akira Kobayashi's first leading role in a gangster film in the ninkyo-eiga genre. Together with Joe Shishido, he stars in a film about the...

Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji...

Matsukichi, a worker at a fish market, tries to settle the business between the two competitors on his turf.

A crime film released in 1965

A romantic story about a knight who becomes involved in the murder of his brother's wife and ultimately confronts the local yakuza.