Hideo Murota — Actor (130)
Amagi Pass (1998) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
天城越え
other title: Le goût de la cerise / 天城越え
A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of them is the geisha Ozuka Hana. After a murder takes place, the police searchs for the culprit.
Farewell to Rock'n Roll (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
番格ロック
director: Makoto Naito actor: Emiko Yamauchi / Naoya Makoto
other title: Ranking Boss Rock / 番格ロック
There is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry. Yukiko, the "Bankaku," or chief bodyguard of the Akabane, is released from reform school and sets about to finish an ongoing one-on-one grudge match with the Arab Falcon and the whole Cavalry gang. With a theme song by 1970s Japanese "Group Sounds" band Carol, and live performance. Rock and Sukeban unite for an extraordinary and cool piece of filmmaking.
MOROCCO 2: The Return of the Yokohama Follies (1996) [Movie] TMDB
MOROCCO(モロッコ) 横浜愚連隊物語Ⅱ
other title: MOROCCO(モロッコ) 横浜愚連隊物語Ⅱ
Tatsu's life seemed to be smooth sailing, as he was blessed by his friends, married Fujieda, and made peace with the yakuza. However, the days when the yakuza were free to run amok were coming to an end. Tatsu was sent to prison for a dispute over a bottle of hiropon, and during his two years in prison, his former gang mates became Inayama-gumi disciples.... I can't stand under the wind of others! Tatsu mutters in anger...
King of Sha-kin (1997) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
借王
director: Seiji Izumi actor: Show Aikawa / Hideo Murota
other title: 借王
In late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life meet by chance. They team up to orchestrate a complex financial con targeting crooked businessmen in an attempt to solve their respective financial woes.
On the Road (1982) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
オン・ザ・ロード
other title: オン・ザ・ロード / On The Road
Model Reiko Higa is injured after being hit by a car pursued by motorcycle cop Tomishima. Tomishima's supervisor refuses his request to apologize to Reiko, as it would be an admission of police responsibility. Forced to give up her career, Reiko leaves Tokyo to return to her hometown on Okinawa, travelling by road up to Kagoshima, and Tomishima pursues her in order to apologize.
The Seburi Story (1985) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
瀬降り物語
other title: 瀬降り物語 / Seburi monogatari
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's adultery is punished by burying her up to her neck in the earth and then leaving her for days), the Seburi are mainly treated with fear and animosity by the non-Seburi townspeople of the region. Along with the hardships arising from cultural clashes, nature's own vagaries present other challenges to the Seburi -- who still lived in tents until the 1950s. Winter avalanches and snowstorms cause as much havoc as the tensions engendered by the slow encroachment of the modern world.
Code of Wolves (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
実録飛車角 狼どもの仁義
other title: True Account of Hikashaku: A Wolf’s Honor and Humanity / 実録飛車角 狼どもの仁義
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
Shimane Prison Riot (1975) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
暴動島根刑務所
other title: 暴動島根刑務所 / Bodo shimane keimusho
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsiest assault ever attempted?
The Law of Hell (1982) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
地獄の掟
director: Akira Inoue actor: Renji Ishibashi / Toru Masuoka
other title: 地獄の掟
At a restaurant called Anrakutei on an island is a wasteland surrounded by moat and swamp. The owner Ikuzo manages the restaurant with his daughter. It’s customers who have a dark past have utmost respect for Ikuzo. One day, a half-dead man Tomijiro comes to the restaurant. This is the beginning of Ikuzo’s terrible fight.
Curtain Call (1984) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
愛情物語
other title: 愛情物語 / Aijō monogatari
Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her real father, "Daddy-Long-Legs", who sends a bouquet of flowers every birthday, once she can wear a special pair of pointe shoes. The day finally arrives and Miho's small adventure begins.
Shura ga Yuku 2 (1996) [Movie] TMDB
修羅がゆく2 戦争勃発
director: Seiji Izumi actor: Show Aikawa / Kaori Sakagami
other title: 修羅がゆく2 戦争勃発
A small group of men stigmatized for killing the gang leader tries to survive the group and take revenge on the man who killed them, while being involved in the conflict between the two major powers of Kanto and Kansai. The second movie of the live action adaptation series.
A Tender Place (2001) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
柔らかな頬
other title: 柔らかな頬
Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama's villa in Hokkaido, she plans to abandon them to be with Ishiyama. The next morning, her daughter Yuka disappears, which throws Kasumi's life into turmoil. Years later, Yuka remains missing, and Kasumi journeys back to Hokkaido with Utsumi, a terminally-ill former detective, and tries to follow any leads she can.
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
眠らない街 新宿鮫
other title: 眠らない街 新宿鮫 / Nemuranai Machi: Shinjuku Same
A lone-wolf detective known as "The Shark" must navigate hostile territory within both the criminal underworld and his own corrupt department to hunt down a ruthless serial cop-killer in the streets of Shinjuku. Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.
Yakuza Zombie (2001) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
実録外伝 ゾンビ極道
director: Hirohisa Sasaki actor: Hitoshi Ozawa / Hideo Murota
other title: 実録外伝 ゾンビ極道
Yakuza Zombie opens with an introduction to a mysterious Yakuza graveyard deep in the forest, and a story of the baddest Yakuza of them all, Naruo Ryuuji (shown in cut scenes played by Ozawa Hitoshi). Naruo Ryuuji was a fearless killer who eventually got into heroin and, exactly like Ishimatsu Rikuo in Takashi Miike's Graveyard of Honor, eventually leaps to his death from the top of a prison, claiming he'll be back. I'm assuming this is a reference to real life crazy Yakuza Ishikawa Rikio, whom the original Graveyard of Honor was based on. It's established that the corpse of the fierce Yakuza Ryuuji is buried in the graveyard beneath a marker with the Japanese characters "Jingi" (Honor), and then we are taken to the modern day.
Goodbye, Flickmania (1979) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
さらば映画の友よ インディアンサマー
other title: さらば映画の友よ インディアンサマー
Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a fortyish film maniac who spends nearly all his time at the movies and a 19-year-old going through the final rites of passage from adolescence to adulthood.