Kunio Murai Movies

A coming-of-age story. Shuji, a Japanese teen, is falling in love with his friend Hiroyuki, however, Hiroyuki is attracted to Kasane, the new girl in...

Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for...

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.

Adapted from Sanpei Shirato's classic manga, a legend unfolds as Watari, a young boy skilled in ninjutsu, takes on the corruption inside the Iga clan...

Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor), the film depicts the uneasy...

A drama about a father and his son centered around the Great Hanshin earthquake.

Born in affluent families among the Japanese mountains, two close cousins fall in love and have to suffer through the social constraints of their...

After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages. Realising his position, he invites the...

After the first anniversary of Ishimatsu's death, Jirocho Shimizu sets off on a pilgrimage. During his travels, he encounters a woman and local...

Kunihiko Date (Hiroshi Fujioka), a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to take revenge on the men who once drove his father...

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s...

After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriage seem to suddenly vanish as she finds out that...

Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...

Taeko, who last saw her missing grandmother, could not forget the white gloves of the cab driver. The driver was a very creepy old man...

Kuki Fumihiro is a son from a wealthy zaibatsu (conglomerate) family. His father raises him to become pure evil. Kuki kills his father to protect his...

A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history...

Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.

Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya...