James J. Murakami Movies

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite...

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.

As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind...

When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Connor and Web Smith are called...

A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.

Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose...

When a prominent art dealer is found murdered, the man's death leads to an intriguing investigation steeped in sex, corruption and crime. District...

The five-year romance of a window dresser and her boyfriend breaks up, as each of them finds a more interesting partner.

Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.

Documentary on the making of Clint Eastwood's film 'Letters from Iwo Jima'.

A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who embezzled $15 million of mob money. He is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the...

A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

A brilliant but socially inept 14-year-old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends – Cappie, an older-brother...

A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.

A widowed father struggles to hold together his family of three teenagers, one of whom is intellectually challenged and enrolled in a state school...

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from prison within an hour. What follows is a flashback...

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a...

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy...