Directing

Mitsuo Murayama

Born — Died

1920-04-01 — 1979-07-29

Place of birth

Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

26 titles

Known for

Gateway to Glory poster
8.3

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

Gateway to Glory

1969

The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly poster
6.1

Police investigate a series of mysterious murders where the only clue is a strange buzzing noise at the scene of the crime.

The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly

1957

Karafuto 1945 Summer poster
7.3

The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. On August 15, 1945, Soviet forces invaded Karafuto. On August 20, the postal telegraph office in Maoka suspended operations and nine of the twelve telephone operators committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide while the city was being invaded.

Karafuto 1945 Summer

1974

Dark Rendezvous poster
7.0

Private eye Chang Wen Chiang receives a telephone call from his girlfriend Li Lan Hsing. He rushes over and finds her dying in a pool of blood.

Dark Rendezvous

1969

A Cause to Kill poster
7.0

Ivy Ling Po, star of The Temple of the Red Lotus, tears up the screen as a jealous, murderous movie star, who, like seemingly all "film noir" vixens, wants to kill off her husband. While she's infuriated that the hitman she hires bungles the job, she's delighted that her husband is found guilty for the killer's "murder".

A Cause to Kill

1970

Etajima, the Naval Academy poster
NR

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account. Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.

Etajima, the Naval Academy

1959

Behind the camera

Gateway to Glory poster
8.3

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

Gateway to Glory

1969

The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly poster
6.1

Police investigate a series of mysterious murders where the only clue is a strange buzzing noise at the scene of the crime.

The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly

1957

Karafuto 1945 Summer poster
7.3

The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. On August 15, 1945, Soviet forces invaded Karafuto. On August 20, the postal telegraph office in Maoka suspended operations and nine of the twelve telephone operators committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide while the city was being invaded.

Karafuto 1945 Summer

1974

Dark Rendezvous poster
7.0

Private eye Chang Wen Chiang receives a telephone call from his girlfriend Li Lan Hsing. He rushes over and finds her dying in a pool of blood.

Dark Rendezvous

1969

A Cause to Kill poster
7.0

Ivy Ling Po, star of The Temple of the Red Lotus, tears up the screen as a jealous, murderous movie star, who, like seemingly all "film noir" vixens, wants to kill off her husband. While she's infuriated that the hitman she hires bungles the job, she's delighted that her husband is found guilty for the killer's "murder".

A Cause to Kill

1970

Etajima, the Naval Academy poster
NR

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account. Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.

Etajima, the Naval Academy

1959

Black Money poster
NR

The case of the counterfeit bills that spread all over Japan.

Black Money

1963

Kodokan Under a Morning Moon poster
NR

The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious hoodlums led by Takamatsu, and judo, which is used only for self-defense and championed by Sugawara. All of which, comes to a mighty match between Sugawara and Takamatsu. It's loaded with dynamite, so to speak, and lasts five minutes on the screen, Sugawara, wins. Takamatsu, a poor loser, and his four ju-jitsu hoodlum companions later ambush Sugawara in the woods. This turns out to be a mortal combat. You'd like to learn the outcome, wouldn't you?

Kodokan Under a Morning Moon

1957

Ônna himitsu chosain-kuchibiru ni kakerô poster
NR

Japanese crime film

Ônna himitsu chosain-kuchibiru ni kakerô

1970

Hit and Run  Gang poster
NR

Detective Goto, who had sniffed out drugs as the culprit behind the murder of an elderly woman, was run over and killed while pursuing the culprit. His younger brother Matabei vowed to challenge the culprit in front of his brother's grave. A fast-paced action-packed story.

Hit and Run Gang

1960

Medal from the Devil poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Medal from the Devil

1967

Zero-Fighters poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zero-Fighters

1965

Diary of a Substitute Doctor poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Diary of a Substitute Doctor

1959

Machi no uwasa mo sanjûgo nichi poster
NR

A bride suddenly disappears from the wedding venue, and her boyfriend begins searching for her. Things get hectic around the two of them.

Machi no uwasa mo sanjûgo nichi

1960

Tokyo Crime Map poster
NR

An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence.

Tokyo Crime Map

1956

The Falcon Fighters poster
10.0

In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps trains new volunteers from the Army's Infantry to become Japan's next generation of fighter pilots at the Tokorozawa Flying School. Flying Kawasaki Ko-4 biplanes, Lt. Katō will train both friend and future foe alike. But as war in China breaks out, Katō now in command of the 5th Rentai will take his untested men flying antiquated planes into aerial combat against the Chinese Air Force who is now headed by Lt. Cho who Katō both earlier befriended and personally trained himself. While Katō's squadron ultimately achieves air superiority over the skies of Manchuria, it comes at a high price in men to which each loss carries a heavy burden that he alone must carry. As the war widens into the Second World War, Captain Katō must battle an ever advancing array of deadlier new enemies flying ever more modern fighter planes.

The Falcon Fighters

1969

Fūshinraishin poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Fūshinraishin

1962

Black Challenger poster
NR

Young lawyer Jiro receives a late night phone call from a distraught woman sending him on a journey to uncover corruption and exploitation stemming from those at the very top of society.

Black Challenger

1964

Whispering Death Beauty poster
NR

Fujiko Niwa, a nurse, is in love with Dr. Suga, but fear clutches her heart when she overhears that Reiko, the Director's daughter, is coming to the hospital to see the man she hopes to marry.

Whispering Death Beauty

1963

Clamouring Canines poster
8.5

The second film in the "Inu" series.

Clamouring Canines

1964

Hellgate poster
NR

A reporter and his younger sister discover an old man's corpse in their car. Not knowing the deceased invented a secret weapon, he takes the body to a nearby hospital. Afterwards, the siblings discover they're being followed by sinister-looking men.

Hellgate

1970

Return of Gun Dog poster
6.2

Zoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the Inu series.

Return of Gun Dog

1966

Boss of Hades poster
NR

1957 Japanese movie

Boss of Hades

1957

Yamaotoko no Uta poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yamaotoko no Uta

1962

Jochū-san nikki poster
NR

A painter seduces a young lady he met in Ginza on his first day off, while an innocent maid from the countryside falls in love and makes a big splash with her heroic exploits.

Jochū-san nikki

1956

Horeruna Yanpachi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Horeruna Yanpachi

1956