
Hideo Murota
Known for Acting · 262 credits
- Born
- 1937-10-07
- Died
- 2002-06-15
- Place of birth
- Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
- Also known as
- هیدئو موروتا · Hideo Murota · Murota Hideo · Chideo Murota · Hideo Murata
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.
Known For
TV Shows (9)

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
1983
as Ryūzō Kitagami

Professional Killers
1972
as Guard Kawachi

Three Sisters
1967
as Masuma Kyunosuke

Inazuman
1973
as Captain Salar

Wind of the Ryūkyū Islands
1993

前略おふくろ様
1975

ホットドッグ
1990
as 高松悟郎

I Can Hear the Sound of Festival
1977
Movies (253)

Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
as Japanese Pilot (uncredited)

Kagemusha
1980
as Nobufusa Baba

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983
as New Commandant of Camp

Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
1974
as Kusaka

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
1972
as Okizaki

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
1972
as Okizaki

An Adolescent
2001
as Shozo

Violent Streets
1974
as Mochizuki Kunihiro

Story of a Nymphomaniac
1975
as (uncredited)

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1973
as Keisuke Nakahara

Shogun's Samurai
1978
as Sagenta Nogero

Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
1982

Those Swell Yakuza
1988

Graveyard of Honor
1975
as Yasuo Matsuoka

Bloodstained Clan of Honor
1970

Samurai Reincarnation
1981
as Priest Inshun Hozoin

Play it, Boogie-Woogie
1981
as Owner of Queen Elizabeth

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1974
as Hideo Hayakawa

Dead Angle
1979

Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
1969

The Beast to Die
1980
as Hideyuki Kashiwagi

Theater Of Life
1983

Isola: Multiple Personality Girl
2000
as Old victim of the Great Hanshin Earthquake

Over the Night
1998

Proof of the Man
1977

A Fugitive from the Past
1965
as Pressman

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973
as Hideo Hayakawa

The Executioner
1974
as Five Dragons Chairman

A Night in Nude
1993
as Care taker

Heaven and Earth
1990
as Obu Toramasa

Cops vs. Thugs
1975

A Taxing Woman
1987
as Jukichi Ishii

Hiruko the Goblin
1991
as Watanabe

Gonin
1995
as Shikine

The Seburi Story
1985
as Kuzushiri

Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread
1974
as Kazushige Osone

Deep Throat in Tokyo
1975
as Takehiko Sakuma

Sure Death 4
1987
as Yahei Hirano

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974
as Masuo Nozaki

Station
1981
as Shigeru Morioka

The Tattooed Hitman
1974
as Takeshi Daito

The Lady in a Black Dress
1987
as Tateoka

Black Angel
1998
as Mitsuru Amaoka

Operation Plazma in Osaka
1976

Cabaret
1986
as Kosakai

Third Generation Boss
1974

Rape and Death of a Housewife
1978
as Taizo Eguchi

Father of the Kamikaze
1974

Lake of Illusions
1982
as Yazaki

Seven Days War
1988
as Segawa

The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1993
as Momoi

Rampaging Dragon of the North
1966
as Gen Ashida

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
1975
as Takeo Akamatsu

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
1966

Black Rose Mansion
1969
as Kyohei's son - Wataru's brother

Wolves, Pigs & Men
1964
as Iwasaki's henchman

A Legend of Turmoil
1992
as Takashi Oda

Dogra Magra
1988
as Dr. Wakabayashi

The Rapacious Jailbreaker
1974
as Koichi Kaneyama

Talk of the Town Tora-san
1978

Yakuza Graveyard
1976
as Detective Inspector Hidaka Yoshito

Kukai
1984

Street Mobster
1972
as Miyahara

Karate Bear Fighter
1975

Violent Panic: The Big Crash
1976

Sensei
1989
as Head of Yamamoto

Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965
as Saiki, News reporter

Island of the Evil Spirits
1981
as Inspector Isokawa

The Classroom of Terror
1976

Let Him Rest in Peace
1985
as Otomatsu Tokuda

Hunter in the Dark
1979

Original Sin
1992
as Hideki Tsuchiya

Gambling Den Heist
1975
as Kumakichi

Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder
1972
as Yasuo Onuma

Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
1973
as Kuroda

Doberman Cop
1977
as Officer Jirō Takahashi

Quarreling with Yakuza
1973

The Yakuza Code Still Lives
1976
as Tsuneyuki Okimoto

The Machine Gun Dragon
1976

The Great Okinawa Yakuza War
1976
as Gushikawa

A Tender Place
2001
as Masayoshi Izumi

It's Easier Than Kissing
1989
as Mr. Kaji

The Threat
1966
as Sabu

Japan Organized Crime Boss
1969
as Shiga

Kidnapping Blues
1982
as Drunken Guest

The Last Kamikaze
1970

The Man Who Became The Don
1991

Farewell to Rock'n Roll
1973

Sympathy for the Underdog
1971
as 'Shark' Samejima

The Story of a Geisha
1977

The Bodyguard
1973
as Ishimochi

A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
1973

Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
1965
as Harimoto

Endless Waltz
1995

Curse of the Dog God
1977
as Ryusaku Tarumi

Yakuza Skirmishes
1972

Brutal Tales of Chivalry
1965
as Yakuza

As the River Flows
2000

Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
1976

Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown
1974
as Hirata Yayoi

Passion
1992

The Second Is a Christian
1985
as Kuroiwa

Bodyguard Kiba 2
1973
as Masaru Tatsumi

South to the Horizon
1986
as Kazuyuki Kiryu

Curtain Call
1984
as Taizo Oomori

This Heartbeat
1988

Ready to Shoot
1990
as Ryu

The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
1974
as Tatsuzo

Fossilized Wilderness
1982

Duel of the Underworld
1963

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
1975
as Yûzô Shikauchi

The Island Closest to Heaven
1984
as Kyuzo Nishio

Wolf Guy
1975
as Sanuki

Amagi Pass
1998

Violent Fraternity
1974

The Chivalrous Life
1967

Organized Violence
1967

Dangerous Cops
1987
as Marumi

Code of Wolves
1974

Yakuza Zombie
2001
About Hideo Murota
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. With 262 credits spanning from 1953 to 2003, Hideo Murota has appeared in 253 films and 9 TV shows.
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Most Popular Hideo Murota Movies
- Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) — as Japanese Pilot (uncredited)
- Kagemusha (1980) — as Nobufusa Baba
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) — as New Commandant of Camp
- Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974) — as Kusaka
- Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972) — as Okizaki
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