Chieko Murata Movies

A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity...

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's...

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

Black Snow tells the tale of a disturbed young man who, after spying on his mother with a black serviceman, finds himself unable to attain sexual...

Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daughter will also fall victim to his curse, so that...

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her...

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.

When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his...

1962 Japanese movie

A 1959 film directed by Hiromu Edagawa.

1945 Japanese movie

Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves...