Shinobu Muraki Movies

A man with a dark past comes from Tokyo to the fishing port of Izu, and tries to begin a new life as a fisherman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man.

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A combination of live action and animation chronicinge the great journey of Marco Polo to the mysterious Orient. Much of the story centers on Polo's...

Genre: Family

Cast: Desi Arnaz Jr.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.

Genre: Music

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Two high school girls, Ruri and Yumi, go to Kyoto on a school trip, here they get acquainted with Hinagiku, there are many adventures ahead of the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keizo Kanie

Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Ueya

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Two poor, married farmers have recently lost their only child; after a freak visitation, they pry open an alien cocoon to greet their new daughter.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Takaaki Enoki

An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ichirō Sugai

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The huge tents and life-threatening...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masashi Sada

A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinsuke Ashida

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

Ex-jazz pianist turned promoter finds he is successful, but empty. When an entrepreneur sends him to Moscow with a jazz combo, he falls in with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer discovers the set-up behind the killing - that a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another. She dedicates herself to her...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Karin has lived alone in a secluded mountain village with her consumptive mother since her father died. Her worried grandfather advises her to send...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Fumi Dan

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nagashima

Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.

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Cast: Akira Takarada

Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koreya Senda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka