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
- Otoko Michi 5
- A Tender Place as Masayoshi Izumi
- Shura's Barbarian King
- Yakuza Zombie
2000
- Isola: Multiple Personality Girl as Old victim of the Great Hanshin Earthquake
- As the River Flows
- Otoko Michi 2
1998
- Over the Night
- Black Angel as Mitsuru Amaoka
- Amagi Pass
- Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 2
1997
1996
1995
1993
- Wind of the Ryūkyū Islands
- A Night in Nude as Care taker
- The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark as Section Chief Momoi
- Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
1992
- The Setting Sun as Yamami Gou
- A Legend of Turmoil as Takashi Oda
- Original Sin as Hideki Tsuchiya
- 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
- Beretta M92F Bombshell
- Killing Melody Lady Smith
- Ready to Shoot as Ryu
- What's Up Connection
1989
- It's Easier Than Kissing as Mr. Kaji
- Harimao as Colonel Matsuura
- Sensei as Head of Yamamoto
- Fuyu Monogatari
- Confinement Naburu
1988
- Dogra Magra as Dr. Wakabayashi
- Seven Days War as Segawa
- Those Swell Yakuza
- Love on a Daily Basis
- This Heartbeat
- Bu-ra-i no onna
1987
- Sure Death 4 as Yahei Hirano
- A Taxing Woman as Jukichi Ishii
- Dangerous Cops as Marumi
- The Lady in a Black Dress as Tateoka
1986
- Cabaret as Kosakai
- South to the Horizon as Kazuyuki Kiryu
- Clockwork- Goodbye Winter
1985
- Let Him Rest in Peace as Otomatsu Tokuda
- The Second Is a Christian as Kuroiwa
- The Seburi Story as Kuzushiri
- The Sound of the Waves
1984
- The Island Closest to Heaven as Kyuzo Nishio
- Curtain Call as Taizo Oomori
- Kōgen ni ressha ga hashitta
- Kukai
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
- 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
- Play it, Boogie-Woogie as Owner of Queen Elizabeth
- Station as Shigeru Morioka
- 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
- The Story of a Geisha
- Proof of the Man
- Curse of the Dog God as Ryusaku Tarumi
- Doberman Cop as Officer Jirō Takahashi
- I Can Hear the Sound of Festival
- Karate for Life
- The Smart Aleck Ten
- The Young
1976
- Yakuza Graveyard as Detective Inspector Hidaka Yoshito
- The Yakuza Code Still Lives as Tsuneyuki Okimoto
- The Classroom of Terror
- The Machine Gun Dragon
- The Most Perverted Post War Crimes as Akira Nishimoto
- Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
- Karate Warriors as Ryuzo Nishimura
- Festival Champ
- Violent Panic: The Big Crash as Katsuo Seki
- A Kawachi Rascal's Song as Chūzaburō Sakai
- A Savage Beast Goes Mad as Shimosaka
- The Great Okinawa Yakuza War as Gushikawa
- Operation Plazma in Osaka
- Kawachi Rascal Is Spurred On as Chūzaburō Sakai
1975
- Story of a Nymphomaniac as (uncredited)
- Deep Throat in Tokyo as Takehiko Sakuma
- Graveyard of Honor as Yasuo Matsuoka
- 前略おふくろ様
- A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse as Yûzô Shikauchi
- Karate Bear Fighter
- Cops vs. Thugs
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss as Takeo Akamatsu
- Karate Bullfighter
- Wolf Guy as Sanuki
- Scoundrel Boss as Daigoro Koiwa
- Company Buggers
- 13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats as Warden Akae
- Shimane Prison Riot as Prison guard
- Great Jailbreak as Daichi
- Gambling Den Heist as Kumakichi
- Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
- The Viper Brothers and the Young General
- Green Lovers
- The Man Gang as Principal Ryuji Shirai
1974
- Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs as Kusaka
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics as Hideo Hayakawa
- Violent Streets as Mochizuki Kunihiro
- The Executioner II: Karate Inferno as Tatsuzo
- Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread as Kazushige Osone
- The Tattooed Hitman as Takeshi Daito
- The Rapacious Jailbreaker as Koichi Kaneyama
- Father of the Kamikaze
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 as Masuo Nozaki
- Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown as Hirata Yayoi
- The Executioner as Five Dragons Chairman
- Jeans Blues: No Future as Hayakawa
- Code of Wolves
- Military Comfort Woman
- Third Generation Boss
- Violent Fraternity
- The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
- Bye Bye Love as Police Officer (voice)
- 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 Ishimochi
- Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School as Kuroda
- Professional Killers as Matajûrô Mineyama
- Bodyguard Kiba 2 as Masaru Tatsumi
- Yokosuka Navy Prison
- A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
- Quarreling with Yakuza
- 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
- Rogue Of The Night
- Yakuza Skirmishes
- Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers as Igarashi
- Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder as Yasuo Onuma
- Gang Warfare
- The Lucky Status Symbol
- Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler
1971
- Sympathy for the Underdog as 'Shark' Samejima
- The Armed Organization
- The Gambler's Counterattack as Kawashima
- Kamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair
- The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
- The Big Chase
- Delinquent Boss: Smooth Talking, Good Fighting
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
- Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
1970
1969
- Japan Organized Crime Boss as Shiga
- Black Rose Mansion as Kyohei's son - Wataru's brother
- A Modern Yakuza: The Code of the Lawless
- Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
- The Private Police
1968
- Snake Woman's Curse as Saiji
- Prison Boss
- The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
- Blackmail Is My Life as Seki
- The Cheating Underworld as Barman
- Gambler's Farewell as Koike
- The Bad Boss
- Army Intelligence as Middle-aged man
- Henchmen as Aoki
1967
- Three Sisters as Masuma Kyunosuke
- Organized Violence II as Detective Sawai
- Dissolution Rites
- The Chivalrous Life
- The Rickshaw Man’s Son
- Organized Violence
- Captain Ultra: The Movie as Narrator (voice)
- Parole as Amano
1966
- The Threat as Sabu
- Terror Beneath the Sea as Henchman
- Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
- The Kamikaze Guy
- Rampaging Dragon of the North as Gen Ashida
- Third Class Soldier Boss
- Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave as Mr. Miracle
- Nerves for Victory
1965
- A Fugitive from the Past as Pressman
- Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2 as Harimoto
- Brutal Tales of Chivalry as Yakuza
- Tale of Japanese Burglars as Saiki, News reporter
- Gang's Upward Strategy
- The Hoodlum Brothers
- A Charming Devil
1964
- Wolves, Pigs & Men as Iwasaki's henchman
- The Desperate as Tomita
- Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang
- Life of Hishakaku 3
1963
- Judo Life
- Duel of the Underworld
- Asakusa no kyōkaku as Tatsuo Hyotan
- Police Precinct Part 21