Screenplay: Genzo Murakami

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Genzo Murakami. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kyôko Kagawa · Yuriko Hoshi · Yoshiko Kuga

Synopsis Mohei is a wandering samurai, lost in grief and despair after his family is wiped out. He arrives in the city of Osaka, where the Toyotomi clan accepts him and comes to depend upon his courage and his battlefield skills....

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The Traveling Ruffian

1958 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Hitomi Nakahara · Yumiko Hasegawa · Katsuo Nakamura

Synopsis The story of adventures of Mori no Ishimatsu, a famous member of Jirocho gang.

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Jirochô sangokushi daisanbu

1964 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Yoshiko Sakuma · Eitarô Shindô · Masahiko Tsugawa

Synopsis Jirochô and his men host a group of starving sumo fighters, who end up performing an exhibition while a yakuza bosses' meeting takes place.

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Jirochô sangokushi dainibu

1963 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Yoshiko Sakuma · Shingo Yamashiro · Masahiko Tsugawa

Synopsis Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.

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Kingdom Of Jirocho

1963 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Yoshiko Sakuma · Shingo Yamashiro · Hiroki Matsukata

Synopsis The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on the path to fame and fortune. One of the smartest and...

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Minamoto Yoshitsune (TV)

1991 · Movie · 242 min. · Japan

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Hironobu Nomura · Narumi Yasuda · Takaaki Enoki · Ryo Tamura

Synopsis During the late Heian era in Japan a famous duel took place between the warrior monk Musashibo Benkei and a slender young man of high rank named Shanao. This was the battle at Gojo Bridge, and while Benkei had taken...

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Jirochô sangokushi: kôshûji nagurikomi

1965 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Minoru Oki · Shingo Yamashiro · Yoshiko Sakuma

Synopsis Jirochô and his henchmen rescue Onaka, who was taken by a rival's gang, but during the escape Ochô, Jirochô's wife, falls ill.

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Fighting Hat

1958 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Hashizo Okawa · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Koji Arima · Ryutaro Otomo

Synopsis A Tōei jidai-geki by Makino Masahirō on the eve of the shift to the ninkyō eiga.

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Rônin-gai

1957 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Jûshirô Konoe · Seizaburô Kawazu · Susumu Fujita · Yataro Kitagami

Synopsis A group of ronin live in poverty in the latter days of the Edo period. They are masterless samurai reduced to drunkenness and debauchery living among social outcasts. Doi is a disgraced and disillusioned former warrior waiting in vain for...

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