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
- Shura's Barbarian King
- 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
- The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark as Section Chief Momoi
- A Night in Nude as Care taker
- Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
1992
- The Setting Sun as Yamami Gou
- A Legend of Turmoil as Takashi Oda
- Passion
- Original Sin as Hideki Tsuchiya
- Nanmin Road
1991
1990
- Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
- ホットドッグ as 高松悟郎
- Beretta M92F Bombshell
- Heaven and Earth as Obu Toramasa
- What's Up Connection
- Killing Melody Lady Smith
- Ready to Shoot as Ryu
1989
- Harimao as Colonel Matsuura
- Sensei as Head of Yamamoto
- cf Girl as Onno
- Fuyu Monogatari
- It's Easier Than Kissing as Mr. Kaji
- Confinement Naburu
1988
- Those Swell Yakuza
- Seven Days War as Segawa
- Dogra Magra as Dr. Wakabayashi
- Bu-ra-i no onna
- This Heartbeat
- Love on a Daily Basis
1987
- A Taxing Woman as Jukichi Ishii
- Dangerous Cops as Marumi
- The Lady in a Black Dress as Tateoka
- Sure Death 4 as Yahei Hirano
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
- The Island Closest to Heaven as Kyuzo Nishio
- Kukai
- 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
- Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather as Sagara
- The Law of Hell as Wanderer
- Fossilized Wilderness
- Kidnapping Blues as Drunken Guest
- On the Road as Takamori
- The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September as Vane
- Lullaby of Death as Detective Shibusawa
1981
- Samurai Reincarnation as Priest Inshun Hozoin
- Station as Shigeru Morioka
- Island of the Evil Spirits as Inspector Isokawa
- Play it, Boogie-Woogie as Owner of Queen Elizabeth
1980
- Kagemusha as Nobufusa Baba
- The Beast to Die as Hideyuki Kashiwagi
1978
- Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy as Sagenta Nogero
- Rape and Death of a Housewife as Taizo Eguchi
- Talk of the Town Tora-san as 添田肇
- Shag
1977
- Proof of the Man
- Curse of the Dog God as Ryusaku Tarumi
- I Can Hear the Sound of Festival
- Doberman Cop as Officer Jirō Takahashi
- Karate for Life
- The Story of a Geisha
- The Young
- The Smart Aleck Ten
1976
- Yakuza Graveyard as Yoshito Hidaka
- The Machine Gun Dragon
- Violent Panic: The Big Crash as Katsuo Seki
- The Great Okinawa Yakuza War as Gushikawa
- Operation Plazma in Osaka
- Karate Warriors as Ryuzo Nishimura
- Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
- The Most Perverted Post War Crimes as Akira Nishimoto
- Festival Champ
- A Savage Beast Goes Mad as Shimosaka
- A Kawachi Rascal's Song as Chūzaburō Sakai
- The Yakuza Code Still Lives as Tsuneyuki Okimoto
- Kawachi Rascal Is Spurred On as Chūzaburō Sakai
- The Classroom of Terror
1975
- Story of a Nymphomaniac as (uncredited)
- Deep Throat in Tokyo as Takehiko Sakuma
- 前略おふくろ様
- Graveyard of Honor as Yasuo Yoshioka
- The Viper Brothers and the Young General
- A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse as Yûzô Shikauchi
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss as Takeo Akamatsu
- Wolf Guy as Sanuki
- Cops vs. Thugs
- Company Buggers
- Great Jailbreak as Daichi
- 13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats as Warden Akae
- Shimane Prison Riot as Prison guard
- Karate Bear Fighter
- Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
- Karate Bullfighter
- Gambling Den Heist as Kumakichi
- Scoundrel Boss as Daigoro Koiwa
- Green Lovers
- The Man Gang as Principal Ryuji Shirai
1974
- Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs as Kusaka
- Violent Streets as Kunihiro Mochizuki
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics as Hideo Hayakawa
- Military Comfort Woman
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 as Masuo Nozaki
- The Tattooed Hitman as Takeshi Daito
- Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread as Kazushige Osone
- Father of the Kamikaze
- Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown as Hirata Yayoi
- The Rapacious Jailbreaker as Koichi Kaneyama
- The Executioner II: Karate Inferno as Tatsuzo
- Bye Bye Love as Police Officer (voice)
- The Executioner as Five Dragons Chairman
- Violent Fraternity
- Code of Wolves
- Third Generation Boss
- 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
- Yokosuka Navy Prison
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War as Hideo Hayakawa
- The Bodyguard as Black April Hijacker
- A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
- Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School as Kuroda
- Bodyguard Kiba 2 as Masaru Tatsumi
- Farewell to Rock'n Roll
- Quarreling with Yakuza
- Professional Killers as Matajûrô Mineyama
1972
- Professional Killers as Guard Kawachi
- Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion as Okizaki
- Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 as Okizaki
- Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder as Yasuo Onuma
- Street Mobster as Miyahara
- Yakuza Skirmishes
- Rogue of the Night
- Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler
- The Lucky Status Symbol
- Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers as Igarashi
- Gang Warfare
1971
- Sympathy for the Underdog as 'Shark' Samejima
- The Gambler's Counterattack as Kawashima
- The Armed Organization
- Delinquent Boss: Smooth Talking, Good Fighting
- The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
- Kamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
- Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us
- The Big Chase
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
- Blackmail Is My Life as Seki
- The Bad Boss
- Gambler's Farewell as Koike
- Snake Woman's Curse as Saiji
- Prison Boss
- Army Intelligence as Middle-aged man
- Henchmen as Aoki
- The Cheating Underworld as Barman
- The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
1967
- Three Sisters as Masuma Kyunosuke
- Organized Violence II as Detective Sawai
- The Rickshaw Man’s Son
- Organized Violence
- Captain Ultra: The Movie as Narrator (voice)
- The Chivalrous Life
- Dissolution Rites
- Parole as Amano
1966
- The Threat as Sabu
- Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
- Terror Beneath the Sea as Henchman
- Rampaging Dragon of the North as Gen Ashida
- Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave as Mr. Miracle
- The Kamikaze Guy
- Third Class Soldier Boss
- Nerves for Victory
1965
- A Fugitive from the Past as Pressman
- Brutal Tales of Chivalry as Yakuza
- Tale of Japanese Burglars as Saiki, News reporter
- The Hoodlum Brothers
- Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2 as Harimoto
- A Charming Devil
- Gang's Upward Strategy
1964
- Wolves, Pigs & Men as Iwasaki's henchman
- Life of Hishakaku 3
- The Desperate as Tomita
- Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang
1963
- Duel of the Underworld
- Judo Life
- Police Precinct Part 21
- Asakusa no kyōkaku as Tatsuo Hyotan