Date of birth: 1937-10-07
Place of birth: Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: هیدئو موروتا, Hideo Murota, Murota Hideo

Hideo Murota (7 October 1937 – 15 June 2002) was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films. He won the Best Supporting Actor award at the Yokohama Film Festival for his role in Original Sin (1992). In 2002, he passed away from lung cancer at the age of 64.

1975-12-27
Masutatsu Oyama is recruited by his former Army friend to work for a crew of gangsters, but when the

1968-02-09
The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza

1967-04-01
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order

1966-08-03
TULIP (The Undercover Line of International Police) is a New York-based international police force i

1980-04-26
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona

1964-01-01

2001-07-14
Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her

1995-09-23
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as pla

1977-05-14
The last of the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy. Oyama takes a job as a professional wrestler in Okinawa, bu

1990-11-24
Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. T

1987-02-07
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Go

1976-11-17
Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He

1966-06-04
An elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII.

1974-05-21
Agent Zero is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills

1980-10-04
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who

1991-02-08
Dirty Hero Takuro Kanzaki appears in a life and death murder game!

1990-11-09
Koichi Iwaki plays a cool hitman!

1994-12-09
A college graduate, a gutless office worker and a crunchy yakuza live together from a slight misunde

1996-06-27
A yakuza movie directed by Eiichi Kudo

1998-06-27
Sequel to 'Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf'

1990-12-28
A painfully splendid adventure has begun!

2000-08-04
The second instalment depicting the fateful confrontation of Takizawa.

1991-05-11
A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they

2001-05-11
The conflict that broke out due to the expansion of the power of the Ninryukai was further intensifi

1976-10-30
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotia

1974-03-30
Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro K

1974-04-13
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a

1988-08-13
A community is in turmoil when junior high schoolers barricade themselves in an empty factory to pro

1967-07-21
In the latter half of the 21st century, Captain Ultra and the crew of his ship the Mighty Spiegel op

2000-01-22
When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthqua

1965-12-18

1970-01-26
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos

1974-12-07
Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move th

1971-04-15
Exciting fights between the police and a crime syndicate over the secret of poison gas.

1972-08-25
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she

1971-01-12
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to viol

1991-01-11
A former safe-breaker, a former yakuza , and another young "Toshiro" Ryo (Aikawa) are planning to at

2001-01-01
Fumihiko Saizonoji , a man who lost everything in the plot of a bank and a general contractor when h

1996-11-21
The third 'King of Kita' film.

1996-02-10
A small group of men stigmatized for killing the gang leader tries to survive the group and take rev

1985-10-10

1979-02-24

1972-10-25
Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of th

1974-12-28
When both a priceless jewel and the daughter of a rich heiress are stolen by a master criminal, Koga

1969-07-08
Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang aft

2001-09-28
Incredibly indolent cop Tomokawa spends his time making fun of his mentally challenged friend Sukema

1965-05-15
Movie adaptation of the TV series.

1968-02-28
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by

1969-07-30
When wealthy Kyohei hires singer "Black Rose" to perform in his exclusive club, he gets more than he

1970-05-27
If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the t

1975-12-05
Kumi Taguchi is a model who leaves her boxer boyfriend after he sustains an injury. She meets and qu

1973-09-25
There is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry. Yuki

1981-11-07
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering po

1965-01-15
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash

1973-05-24
Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested

1979-06-17
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gom

1982-10-09
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch

1982-06-05
Ryo once rode with a biker gang; ever since his friend Tetsuji died riding in September, he's retire

1962-05-27
1962 Japanese movie

1982-08-30
At a restaurant called Anrakutei on an island is a wasteland surrounded by moat and swamp. The owner

1975-10-14
Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike h
1975-06-21
Pinku from 1975.

1985-06-14
A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, so

1976-08-07
Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.

1964-04-18
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths.

1969-02-01
Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shi

1984-09-29
At a certain high school in Karuizawa, students relied on ordinary local trains for their commute, b

1972-05-06
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza faction

1990-09-15
When a Hong Kong teenager from a poor family wins a trip to Japan, he unleashes a chain of events th

1976-02-28
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a

1974-08-10
Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuichi Koga, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hay

1992-10-20
Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an es

1960-01-27
Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.

1992-06-13
The story of four Vietnamese people moving to Japan.

1982-04-17
Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Divisio

1989-05-06
Pinku distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

1982-10-09
Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seek

1962-09-16
1962 Japanese movie

1986-10-10
Ayumi Ishida won the Blue Ribbon for the Best Actress.

1982-06-05
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties confl

1993-10-08
Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.

1966-01-13
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor

1990-11-17
A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho

1965-08-25
A crime film released in 1965

1998-05-30
Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuz

1962-10-06
1962 Japanese movie

1963-07-31
Sonny Chiba is a young gambler on the run. He pretends to be an innocent student, and is taken in by

1992-09-15
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader o

1974-06-01
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst

1974-08-10
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamag

1974-11-01
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's mem

1960-07-20
G-men of Japan fifth installment. A young detective, questioning a double suicide involving his pol

1988-10-15
A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum wit

1975-08-09
Sonny Chiba plays Kyokushin Karate founder Masutatsu Oyama, who unexpectedly arrives at a karate to

1978-07-08
Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendshi

2003-04-02
Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that

1975-06-21
After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.

1993-12-18
Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be

1967-05-30
Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with

1995-10-07
Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.

1978-03-31
Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ai

2001-02-15
Yakuza Zombie opens with an introduction to a mysterious Yakuza graveyard deep in the forest, and a

1979-07-04
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s

1968-06-01
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dre

1984-04-13
The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of Ind

1970-10-29
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up s

1992-01-15
A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful ya

1987-12-12
When a doctor is found dead and the company's exclusive data on a cancer drug is missing, detective

1981-04-07
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high

1985-09-14
The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different me

1964-03-01
Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.

1968-02-09
Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then
1982-04-17
Model Reiko Higa is injured after being hit by a car pursued by motorcycle cop Tomishima. Tomishima'

1963-04-21
Sonny Chiba's first martial arts film, a partially fictionalized judo biopic based on prominent judo

1999-02-20
Remake of Chusei Sone's 1983 comedy about a yakuza family trying their luck in show business.

1977-07-02
Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly mur

1979-05-26
Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friends

1989-06-03
A movie about Yutaka Tani, also known as " Malay Tiger Harimao, " who was active on the Malay Penins

1988-12-17
The lives of a young yakuza and his girlfriend.

1996-05-04
Tatsu's life seemed to be smooth sailing, as he was blessed by his friends, married Fujieda, and mad

1968-07-12
An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haun

1973-09-25
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and e

1973-04-28
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a

1975-01-29
A sly gangster hatches a plot against his own wife, who works at a brothel-cum-bathhouse, with the h

1971-09-18
This is the Twelfth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 &

1971-09-14
This is the thirteenth film in the series.

1974-09-14
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to reali

1976-02-28
Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun an

1966-02-17
Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an adv

1976-12-04
After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new lif

1965-10-01
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Ka

1976-04-10
Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.

1976-09-04
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangs

1968-04-18
Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

1976-06-19
Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after Wor

1972-06-09
Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touch

1967-06-29

1975-03-08
Maki is the leader of a female gang who fights for justice, but she ends up being framed and sent to

1977-06-18
A trio of young scientists investigate a source of uranium at the base of a sacred mountain, and aft

1967-10-21
Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.

1972-01-11
A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of vi

1975-02-15
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. B

1975-04-26
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their politic

1997-10-11
In late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life meet by chance. They team up to orchestra

1964-08-26
Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh ou

1972-09-29
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively wit

1973-03-03
Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most power

1973-07-04
Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated s

1987-03-14
A woman named Fujiki Asuka arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar mas

1974-03-30
Third film in the series.

1974-12-28
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bun

1970-02-21
A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.

1975-04-04
Akira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural po

1972-10-25
The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s rele

1965-07-10
Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove t

1972-04-14

1988-06-11
Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and R

1974-01-15
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under press

1975-11-01
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the y

1987-06-06
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by

1978-01-21
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers

1981-06-06
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring

1983-01-29
Adaptation of Shiro Ozaki's novel.

1971-08-13
Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a

1991-12-21
Based on the comic by Ayumi Tachihara

1973-10-13
Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent ac

1971-12-01
Exciting fight of a secret police detective over secret of a diamond.

1975-06-07
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisone

1977-02-26
Based on the comic by Toshiya Masaoka.

1974-10-05
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of

1976-07-01
Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school

1969-09-06
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kami

1971-11-10
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurat

1971-12-29

1976-05-29
Hiroki Matsukata is a fish market worker and a fanatical Japanese festival rascal. He also falls in

1968-05-06
The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It last

1968-08-14
Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yen.

1966-10-22
The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to f

1975-04-05
A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to

1974-12-07
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a

1976-05-15
Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept

1971-10-14
Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has

1967-02-25
A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.

1970-01-31
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the b

1973-06-09
Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is w

1985-05-11
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy abou

1986-08-30
Tetsu gets into an argument with some Okinawa yakuza and is murdered by them. His brother Ryo comes

1953-06-03
The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

1997-10-11
A normal banker decides to take on the loan sharks and yakuza.

1997-01-01
“Gunro no keifu” is known as “Tale of a Scarface.” It follows the life of Kumoro, a yakuza member, w

1992-04-25
A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.

1972-12-30
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a

1976-01-31
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's large

1970-06-04
Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by

1976-12-25

1989-01-28
After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father

1998-01-01
A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of the

1981-10-03
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets

1975-09-20
Based on the comic by Tetsu Kariya.

1984-12-15
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that

1966-08-26
A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading

1973-06-30
Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press con

1974-07-17
Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army du

1962-04-22
G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokoha

1989-04-15
Based on the comic by Hidenori Hara.

1973-11-17
When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is s

1966-07-01
While covering a test of guided torpedoes, two reporters believe they see what appears to be a stran

1970-04-10
When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead

1977-10-08
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of

1965-05-01
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a bur

1983-05-28
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison

1975-05-24
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lin

1995-11-25
There are rumors that “a mysterious woman who is very good at SEX will appear” in a small hot spring

1975-08-09
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their d

1977-08-27
In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.

1991-10-11
Killers Ken and Joji undertake the killing of a man named Sakai. He utters some interesting last wor

1970-08-14
Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family

1986-04-26
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thrill

1978-12-27
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on

1982-09-11
A free-spirited girl living in a Japanese province spends her time working in a brothel and running

1967-12-01
A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to becom

1988-04-28
A group of friends get together to remember a decessed classmate. One of them is a detective who lov

1989-04-08
In one of the districts of Tokyo, an old school is planned to be torn down after the summer holidays

1970-04-18
8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.

1970-05-01
A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison

1969-11-20
An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangste

1997-07-19

1975-10-18
Daigoro Koiwa and Katsuo Rokujo, who met by chance, open a recession-resistant funeral business and

1975-03-01
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + side

1974-04-27
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and n

1963-07-13

1993-05-08

1974-01-15
Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister.

1961-12-15

1984-07-14
Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised M

1995-09-01
#13 in the series, after the Special Movie.

1998-10-31
Actress Asada Kaori finally gets wet. A place where desire and betrayal intersect. And that's where

1991-05-11

1991-08-23
The legendary sleeping lion is back in the modern era! Skyline GTR (BNR32) VS GTR (KPGC10) With Kei

1972-06-15

1971-06-25

1988-10-08
The love and friendships of high school students

1968-04-19
The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Iz

1958-03-11
1958 Toei movie.

1958-03-18
1958 Toei movie

1958-08-12
1958 Toei movie.

1961-02-14
1961 Japanese movie

1963-06-14
A burnt corpse of a man was found in Okutama. As a result of the investigation, it turns out that th

1974-12-06
Two young people undertake a doomed summer road trip through Japan, which in turn reflects on the di

1977-04-29
Drama starring Sakurada Junko

1966-05-21
1966 Toei Comedy

1995-11-10
The ultimate sex appeal wars have begun between the two shop girls working opposite each other in th