Shigeru Muroi Movies

Young women disappear one after another in drizzling rain. They all hear the “cursed song” of the Cage Song before they vanish into thin...

In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three children. During the summer, there wasn't much fish to...

Japanese adaptation of Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced.

The film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka where she learns how to cook. When she turns 18, she...

A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.

Madoka meets her husband's parents, who run a 450-year-old hand fan shop in the center of Kyoto. Together with her artist friend Anzai, they start an...

The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide...

Made-for-TV film adaptation of the 1957 novel by Seicho Matsumoto starring Takeshi Kitano and directed by Noboru Tanaka. The novel was previously...

Nobuko Sawaguchi is a surly, unattractive housekeeper in her mid-thirties. However, in actuality, she is a beautiful woman, but she hides this fact...

Yuma Nakahara is the CEO of an IT company and he is a workaholic. He is focused only on expanding his company. He receives a phone call from his...

When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love with Hama-chan's fishing protégé.

Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan...

In a small town, high school students in their final year try to balance their studies while also playing together in a rock band.

Sachiko lost her parents at an early age and lived together with her only sister Nobuko who worked for a newspaper. Out of the blue, she is told that...

A boy and girl struggle to understand their place in 1980s Japan, retiring to copulate and probe each other for answers.

Unfinished film based on the life of biologist Minakata Kumagusu.

Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to...

An adult love story written and directed by Yasushi Akimoto of "Goodbye Mama" and shot on location in New York. Haruko and Natsuko are sisters who...