Kōju Murata Movies

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.

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

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

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

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 band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.

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

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...

Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

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...

Second part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto.

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.

1946 Japanese movie

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...