Masao Murata

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, but ultimately wins both the girl and his father's acceptance and support in a touching and refreshing way.

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

This film depicts women who throw themselves into the world of call girls as an easy way to make a living and seek pleasure, only to ruin their lives through money and sex.

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

In the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Tanemura General Hospital in Tokyo, Setagaya. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Inspector Kitahara, who received the report, goes quickly to the Tanemura home, along with other police to speak to the family of the child. Then, suddenly, the phone rings. The kidnapper wants money.

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their leader is.

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Kazuo Hasegawa's debut at Daiei.

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as 川並人足の親方吉五郎

A lost film directed by Ushihara Kiyohiko based on a story published in the Mainichi Sunday Newspaper entitled '恋女扇.' It stars a wild man who falls passionately in love with a woman.

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

1948 Japanese movie

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as Vice president

At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice, Kohei takes Michiko to stay at a dilapidated mountain villa in his hometown. What awaited him there...

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Based on Kōda Rohan's novella The Five-Storied Pagoda.

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Muneyama

A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him, leading the once promising actor to a life on the streets. But his desire to win back the respect of his father and the affection of the dead actor's daughter pushes him toward a more noble existence. Naruse employed a delicately structured mise-en-scene in this family melodrama, which evokes the work of Josef von Sternberg.