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
8.3A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
Gateway to Glory
1969
6.1Police 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
7.3The 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
7.0Private 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
7.0Ivy 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
NRThe 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
8.3A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
Gateway to Glory
1969
6.1Police 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
7.3The 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
7.0Private 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
7.0Ivy 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
NRThe 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
NRThe case of the counterfeit bills that spread all over Japan.
Black Money
1963
NRThe 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
NRJapanese crime film
Ônna himitsu chosain-kuchibiru ni kakerô
1970
NRDetective 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Medal from the Devil
1967
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Zero-Fighters
1965
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Diary of a Substitute Doctor
1959
NRA 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
NRAn 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
10.0In 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
NR1962 Japanese movie
Fūshinraishin
1962
NRYoung 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
NRFujiko 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
8.5The second film in the "Inu" series.
Clamouring Canines
1964
NRA 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
6.2Zoku 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
NR1957 Japanese movie
Boss of Hades
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Yamaotoko no Uta
1962
NRA 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Horeruna Yanpachi
1956
