Chieko Murata Movies

1962 Japanese movie

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...

Family of Love

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.

Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.

Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.

A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as...

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts...

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...