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
- Shura's Barbarian King
- A Tender Place as Masayoshi Izumi
- Yakuza Zombie
- Otoko Michi 5
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
- Over the Night
- Amagi Pass
- Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 2
1997
1996
1995
1993
- Wind of the Ryūkyū Islands
- Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
- A Night in Nude as Care taker
- The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark as Section Chief Momoi
1992
- The Setting Sun as Yamami Gou
- Original Sin as Hideki Tsuchiya
- A Legend of Turmoil as Takashi Oda
- Passion
- Nanmin Road
1991
1990
- Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
- Heaven and Earth as Obu Toramasa
- ホットドッグ as 高松悟郎
- Killing Melody Lady Smith
- What's Up Connection
- Beretta M92F Bombshell
- Ready to Shoot as Ryu
1989
- Harimao as Colonel Matsuura
- Sensei as Head of Yamamoto
- It's Easier Than Kissing as Mr. Kaji
- Fuyu Monogatari
- Confinement Naburu
1988
- Dogra Magra as Dr. Wakabayashi
- Those Swell Yakuza
- Seven Days War as Segawa
- Love on a Daily Basis
- This Heartbeat
- Bu-ra-i no onna
1987
- A Taxing Woman as Jukichi Ishii
- Sure Death 4 as Yahei Hirano
- Dangerous Cops as Marumi
- The Lady in a Black Dress as Tateoka
1986
- Cabaret as Kosakai
- Clockwork- Goodbye Winter
- South to the Horizon as Kazuyuki Kiryu
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
- Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather as Sagara
- Lake of Illusions as Yazaki
- Kidnapping Blues as Drunken Guest
- Lullaby of Death as Detective Shibusawa
- On the Road as Takamori
- Fossilized Wilderness
- The Law of Hell as Wanderer
- 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
- Curse of the Dog God as Ryusaku Tarumi
- Karate for Life
- I Can Hear the Sound of Festival
- The Young
- The Story of a Geisha
- The Smart Aleck Ten
1976
- Karate Warriors as Ryuzo Nishimura
- Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
- The Machine Gun Dragon
- Yakuza Graveyard as Yoshito Hidaka
- The Most Perverted Post War Crimes as Akira Nishimoto
- Festival Champ
- Violent Panic: The Big Crash as Katsuo Seki
- A Savage Beast Goes Mad as Shimosaka
- Operation Plazma in Osaka
- The Classroom of Terror
- The Great Okinawa Yakuza War as Gushikawa
- A Kawachi Rascal's Song as Chūzaburō Sakai
- Kawachi Rascal Is Spurred On as Chūzaburō Sakai
- The Yakuza Code Still Lives as Tsuneyuki Okimoto
1975
- Story of a Nymphomaniac as (uncredited)
- Deep Throat in Tokyo as Takehiko Sakuma
- Graveyard of Honor as Yasuo Yoshioka
- A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse as Yûzô Shikauchi
- Karate Bear Fighter
- Wolf Guy as Sanuki
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss as Takeo Akamatsu
- Cops vs. Thugs
- Gambling Den Heist as Kumakichi
- Karate Bullfighter
- Great Jailbreak as Daichi
- 前略おふくろ様
- Green Lovers
- Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
- Company Buggers
- Scoundrel Boss as Daigoro Koiwa
- 13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats as Warden Akae
- The Viper Brothers and the Young General
- Shimane Prison Riot as Prison guard
- The Man Gang as Principal Ryuji Shirai
1974
- Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs as Kusaka
- Violent Fraternity
- Violent Streets as Kunihiro Mochizuki
- Military Comfort Woman
- Third Generation Boss
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics as Hideo Hayakawa
- Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread as Kazushige Osone
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 as Masuo Nozaki
- Father of the Kamikaze
- The Rapacious Jailbreaker as Koichi Kaneyama
- The Executioner II: Karate Inferno as Tatsuzo
- Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown as Hirata Yayoi
- The Executioner as Five Dragons Chairman
- Bye Bye Love as Police Officer (voice)
- Code of Wolves
- The Tattooed Hitman as Takeshi Daito
- Jeans Blues: No Future as Hayakawa
- The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
- Reformatory Buddies
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
- The Bodyguard as Black April Hijacker
- Yokosuka Navy Prison
- Bodyguard Kiba 2 as Masaru Tatsumi
- Professional Killers as Matajûrô Mineyama
- Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School as Kuroda
- A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
- Farewell to Rock'n Roll
- Quarreling with Yakuza
1972
- Professional Killers as Guard Kawachi
- Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion as Okizaki
- Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 as Okizaki
- Yakuza Skirmishes
- Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder as Yasuo Onuma
- Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers as Igarashi
- Street Mobster as Miyahara
- Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler
- Rogue of the Night
- The Lucky Status Symbol
- Gang Warfare
1971
- Sympathy for the Underdog as 'Shark' Samejima
- Delinquent Boss: Smooth Talking, Good Fighting
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
- The Big Chase
- Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
- The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
- The Gambler's Counterattack as Kawashima
- The Armed Organization
- Kamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair
1970
1969
- Japan Organized Crime Boss as Shiga
- Black Rose Mansion as Kyohei's son - Wataru's brother
- Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
- A Modern Yakuza: The Code of the Lawless
- The Private Police
1968
- Snake Woman's Curse as Saiji
- Blackmail Is My Life as Seki
- Army Intelligence as Middle-aged man
- Gambler's Farewell as Koike
- Prison Boss
- The Bad Boss
- The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
- The Cheating Underworld as Barman
- Henchmen as Aoki
1967
- Three Sisters as Masuma Kyunosuke
- Captain Ultra: The Movie as Narrator (voice)
- Organized Violence
- The Chivalrous Life
- Organized Violence II as Detective Sawai
- Dissolution Rites
- The Rickshaw Man’s Son
- Parole as Amano
1966
- The Threat as Sabu
- Terror Beneath the Sea as Henchman
- Rampaging Dragon of the North as Gen Ashida
- Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
- Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave as Mr. Miracle
- The Kamikaze Guy
- Nerves for Victory
- Third Class Soldier Boss
1965
- Gang's Upward Strategy
- The Hoodlum Brothers
- A Fugitive from the Past as Pressman
- Brutal Tales of Chivalry as Yakuza
- Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2 as Harimoto
- Tale of Japanese Burglars as Saiki, News reporter
- A Charming Devil
1964
- Wolves, Pigs & Men as Iwasaki's henchman
- Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang
- The Desperate as Tomita
- Life of Hishakaku 3
1963
- Duel of the Underworld
- Judo Life
- Asakusa no kyōkaku as Tatsuo Hyotan
- Police Precinct Part 21