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Tag Archives: Hideo Murota
Gambling Den Heist (1975) Kinji Fukasaku
After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor. Read More »
Those Swell Yakuza / Yakuza tosei no sutekina menmen (1988) Akiyoshi Kimata, Takanori Jinnai, Yumi Asô, Hideo Murota
After getting a beating from a yakuza, a record store owner decides that being a yakuza would be his dream job. Read More »
Dogra Magra / Dogura magura (1988) Toshio Matsumoto, Yôji Matsuda, Shijaku Katsura, Hideo Murota
A man is confined to a mental institution after trying to murder his fiancee. Read More »
The Lady in a Black Dress / Kuroi doresu no onna (1987) Yôichi Sai, Tomoyo Harada, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Hideo Murota
A woman arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar master Tamura who had guided Yakuza’s escaping. Read More »
Hiruko the Goblin AKA Yôkai hantâ: Hiruko (1991) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Kenji Sawada, Masaki Kudou, Hideo Murota
A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they will be free to roam the Earth. Read More »
Original Sin / Shinde mo ii (1992) Takashi Ishii, Shinobu Ohtake, Masatoshi Nagase, Hideo Murota, Drama, Thriller, Romance
Continuing his penchant for directing films in the characteristically Japanese genre he virtually created, director Takashi Ishii here presents yet another stylish rape/thriller. Nami is an attractive woman, and she loves her husband, who runs the real estate agency she works at. One day, during a rainstorm, a mysterious drifter stumbles into her and, following her on her way back to the office, asks for (and gets) a job from her husband, over her protests. Not long after that, Nami and the newcomer are trading amorous glances. When the drifter gets her alone in a model house, he rapes her on the floor. For some reason, this doesn’t offend Nami, and she encourages the socially backward man to take her to bed often. Eventually, the two of them decide to do away with her husband, despite the fact that Nami still loves him.
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