Soundtrack: Kunihiko Murai
The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Kunihiko Murai. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.
Tampopo
1985 · Movie · 114 min. · Japan
Direction Jūzō Itami
Cast Tsutomu Yamazaki · Nobuko Miyamoto · Ken Watanabe · Kôji Yakusho
Plot In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the...
7.0
897 votes
7.0
897 votes
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
1974 · Movie · 83 min. · Japan
Direction Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Akihiro Tomikawa · Junko Hitomi · Goro Mutsumi
Plot The final film, and the final confrontation between Ogami and Retsudo. With most of his family already dead at Ogami's hands, Retsudo launches one last plot to destroy him, and...
6.8
111 votes
6.8
111 votes
Zatoichi at Large
1972 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuo Mori
Cast Shintarô Katsu · Rentarô Mikuni · Hisaya Morishige · Etsushi Takahashi
6.7
40 votes
6.7
40 votes
Zatoichi in Desperation
1972 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan
Direction Shintarô Katsu
Cast Shintarô Katsu · Kiwako Taichi · Kyoko Yoshizawa · Yasuhiro Koume
6.5
45 votes
6.5
45 votes
Shogun Assassin
1980 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan
Direction Robert Houston
Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kayo Matsuo · Minoru Oki · Akiji Kobayashi
Plot Long ago there was a great samurai warrior who served his Shogun honorably. The Shogun however grew paranoid as he became more and more senile. The Shogun sought to destroy...
6.5
613 votes
6.5
613 votes
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
1972 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan
Direction Kenji Misumi
Cast Shintarô Katsu · Yukiji Asaoka · Mari Atsumi · Kô Nishimura
Plot Hanzo has been a constable for 4 years but has not as yet taken the policeman's blood oath. He refuses to make such an oath because the police accept gifts...
6.3
82 votes
6.3
82 votes
The Devil's Ballad
1977 · Movie · 144 min. · Japan
Direction Kon Ichikawa
Cast Koji Ishizaka · Keiko Kishi · Akiko Nishina · Koji Kita
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Hoodlum Soldier: Rebel in the Army
1972 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan
Direction Yasuzô Masumura
Cast Shintarô Katsu · Takahiro Tamura · Koichi Ose · Michiyo Oguso
Plot The last in the Heitai Yakuza series, and the only other entry directed by Masumura, as well as the only one in color. On the Chinese front, Kisaburo, a young...
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Lost in the Wilderness (Story of an Adventurer, Naomi Uemura)
1986 · Movie · 140 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Chieko Baisho · Masato Furuoya · Go Wakabayashi
Plot Adventure-drama based on the life of Naomi Uemura (Nishida), the first Japanese mountain climber to scale most of the world's highest peaks and explore the arctic and Antarctic.
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Sakura no Daimon
1973 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan
Direction Kenji Misumi
Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kayo Matsuo · Michi Higashi · Tomoko Mayama
Plot When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.
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