Hideo Murota
Born: 1937-10-07 in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Died: 2002-06-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2003
- Women in the Mirror as Mr. Goda
2001
- An Adolescent as Shozo
- A Tender Place as Masayoshi Izumi
- Otoko Michi 5
- Yakuza Zombie
- Shura's Barbarian King
2000
- Isola: Multiple Personality Girl as Old victim of the Great Hanshin Earthquake
- As the River Flows
- Otoko Michi 2
1998
- Black Angel as Mitsuru Amaoka
- Amagi Pass
- Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 2
- Over the Night
1997
1996
1995
1993
1992
- A Legend of Turmoil as Takashi Oda
- Original Sin as Hideki Tsuchiya
- Passion
- The Setting Sun as Yamami Gou
- Nanmin Road
1991
1990
- Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
- Heaven and Earth as Obu Toramasa
- Ready to Shoot as Ryu
- ホットドッグ as 高松悟郎
- What's Up Connection
- Beretta M92F Bombshell
- Killing Melody Lady Smith
1989
- Sensei as Head of Yamamoto
- Harimao as Colonel Matsuura
- It's Easier Than Kissing as Mr. Kaji
- Fuyu Monogatari
- Confinement Naburu
1988
- Those Swell Yakuza
- Dogra Magra as Dr. Wakabayashi
- Seven Days War as Segawa
- Love on a Daily Basis
- Bu-ra-i no onna
- This Heartbeat
1987
- A Taxing Woman as Jukichi Ishii
- Sure Death 4 as Yahei Hirano
- The Lady in a Black Dress as Tateoka
- Dangerous Cops as Marumi
1986
- Cabaret as Kosakai
- South to the Horizon as Kazuyuki Kiryu
- Clockwork- Goodbye Winter
1985
- The Seburi Story as Kuzushiri
- The Second Is a Christian as Kuroiwa
- Let Him Rest in Peace as Otomatsu Tokuda
- The Sound of the Waves
1984
- Kukai
- The Island Closest to Heaven as Kyuzo Nishio
- Curtain Call as Taizo Oomori
- Kōgen ni ressha ga hashitta
1983
- Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series as Ryūzō Kitagami
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence as New Commandant of Camp
- Theater Of Life
1982
- Lake of Illusions as Yazaki
- Fossilized Wilderness
- Lullaby of Death as Detective Shibusawa
- Kidnapping Blues as Drunken Guest
- The Law of Hell
- On the Road as Takamori
- The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September as Vane
1981
- Samurai Reincarnation as Priest Inshun Hozoin
- Station as Shigeru Morioka
- Play it, Boogie-Woogie as Owner of Queen Elizabeth
- Island of the Evil Spirits as Inspector Isokawa
1980
- Kagemusha as Nobufusa Baba
- The Beast to Die as Hideyuki Kashiwagi
1978
- Shogun's Samurai as Sagenta Nogero
- Rape and Death of a Housewife as Taizo Eguchi
- Talk of the Town Tora-san
- Shag
1977
- Proof of the Man
- Doberman Cop as Officer Jirō Takahashi
- Karate for Life
- Curse of the Dog God as Ryusaku Tarumi
- The Story of a Geisha
- The Smart Aleck Ten
- I Can Hear the Sound of Festival
- The Young
1976
- Yakuza Graveyard as Detective Inspector Hidaka Yoshito
- Operation Plazma in Osaka
- Violent Panic: The Big Crash
- The Most Perverted Post War Crimes as Akira Nishimoto
- Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
- The Machine Gun Dragon
- The Classroom of Terror
- Karate Warriors as Ryuzo Nishimura
- A Savage Beast Goes Mad as Shimosaka
- Festival Champ
- A Kawachi Rascal's Song as Chūzaburō Sakai
- The Yakuza Code Still Lives as Tsuneyuki Okimoto
- The Great Okinawa Yakuza War as Gushikawa
- Kawachi Rascal Is Spurred On as Chūzaburō Sakai
1975
- 前略おふくろ様
- Graveyard of Honor as Yasuo Matsuoka
- Cops vs. Thugs
- Deep Throat in Tokyo as Takehiko Sakuma
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss as Takeo Akamatsu
- A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse as Yûzô Shikauchi
- Story of a Nymphomaniac as (uncredited)
- Company Buggers
- The Viper Brothers and the Young General
- Great Jailbreak as Daichi
- Wolf Guy as Sanuki
- Karate Bear Fighter
- Karate Bullfighter
- Shimane Prison Riot as Prison guard
- Gambling Den Heist as Kumakichi
- Scoundrel Boss as Daigoro Koiwa
- 13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats as Warden Akae
- Green Lovers
- Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
- The Man Gang as Principal Ryuji Shirai
1974
- Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs as Kusaka
- Third Generation Boss
- The Tattooed Hitman as Takeshi Daito
- Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread as Kazushige Osone
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics as Hideo Hayakawa
- The Executioner II: Karate Inferno as Tatsuzo
- Code of Wolves
- The Executioner as Five Dragons Chairman
- Jeans Blues: No Future as Hayakawa
- Father of the Kamikaze
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 as Masuo Nozaki
- Violent Streets as Mochizuki Kunihiro
- Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown as Hirata Yayoi
- The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
- The Rapacious Jailbreaker as Koichi Kaneyama
- Military Comfort Woman
- Violent Fraternity
- Reformatory Buddies
- Bye Bye Love as Police Officer (voice)
1973
- Inazuman as Captain Salar
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima as Keisuke Nakahara
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War as Hideo Hayakawa
- Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School as Kuroda
- The Bodyguard as Ishimochi
- A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
- Bodyguard Kiba 2 as Masaru Tatsumi
- Quarreling with Yakuza
- Professional Killers as Matajûrô Mineyama
- Yokosuka Navy Prison
- Farewell to Rock'n Roll
1972
- Professional Killers as Guard Kawachi
- Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion as Okizaki
- Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 as Okizaki
- Street Mobster as Miyahara
- Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder as Yasuo Onuma
- Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers as Igarashi
- Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler
- Rogue Of The Night
- Gang Warfare
- Yakuza Skirmishes
- The Lucky Status Symbol
1971
- Sympathy for the Underdog as 'Shark' Samejima
- The Gambler's Counterattack as Kawashima
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
- The Big Chase
- Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
- Kamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair
- The Armed Organization
- The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
- Delinquent Boss: Smooth Talking, Good Fighting
1970
1969
- Japan Organized Crime Boss as Shiga
- A Modern Yakuza: The Code of the Lawless
- Black Rose Mansion as Kyohei's son - Wataru's brother
- Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
- The Private Police
1968
- Blackmail Is My Life as Seki
- The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
- Snake Woman's Curse as Saiji
- Army Intelligence as Middle-aged man
- The Cheating Underworld as Barman
- Prison Boss
- Gambler's Farewell as Koike
- The Bad Boss
- Henchmen as Aoki
1967
- Three Sisters as Masuma Kyunosuke
- Dissolution Rites
- The Chivalrous Life
- Organized Violence
- Organized Violence II as Detective Sawai
- The Rickshaw Man’s Son
- Parole as Amano
- Captain Ultra: The Movie as Narrator (voice)
1966
- The Threat as Sabu
- The Kamikaze Guy
- Nerves for Victory
- Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
- Rampaging Dragon of the North as Gen Ashida
- Terror Beneath the Sea as Henchman
- Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave as Mr. Miracle
- Third Class Soldier Boss
1965
- A Fugitive from the Past as Pressman
- Tale of Japanese Burglars as Saiki, News reporter
- Brutal Tales of Chivalry as Yakuza
- Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2 as Harimoto
- A Charming Devil
- Gang's Upward Strategy
- The Hoodlum Brothers
1964
- Wolves, Pigs & Men as Iwasaki's henchman
- The Desperate as Tomita
- Life of Hishakaku 3
- Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang
1963
- Police Precinct Part 21
- Asakusa no kyōkaku as Tatsuo Hyotan
- Judo Life
- Duel of the Underworld