Shinobu Muraki Movies

Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.

Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in...

A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man.

Ex-jazz pianist turned promoter finds he is successful, but empty. When an entrepreneur sends him to Moscow with a jazz combo, he falls in with the...

A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer discovers the set-up behind the killing - that a...

A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another. She dedicates herself to her...

An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.

A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...

Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.

A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.

Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer.

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

A combination of live action and animation chronicinge the great journey of Marco Polo to the mysterious Orient. Much of the story centers on Polo's...

A man with a dark past comes from Tokyo to the fishing port of Izu, and tries to begin a new life as a fisherman.