Fuyuki Murakami Movies

1962 Japanese movie

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

The third installment in the Shacho Series.

After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out the homes of his sisters, mother, and girlfriend.

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he...

A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.

A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was finally about to get married as a result...

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

1958 Japanese movie

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover...

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.