Chieko Murata Movies

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still...

1945 Japanese movie

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.

A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.

Japanese comedy film.

1945 Japanese movie

The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's...

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall....