Shigeru Muroi Movies

Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been...

When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the...

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

Unfinished film based on the life of biologist Minakata Kumagusu.

A young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you were here". She takes what little money she has...

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which...

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...

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese...

A young man wakes up one morning to find that his head has transformed into a large cabbage. He quickly becomes a source of bemusement, desire and...

A widowed restaurateur is faced with scandal after discovering her late husband had a child out of wedlock. Hearing that two criminals had attempted...

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

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...

This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo....

Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his...

When a research crew in deep space discovers the desolate ship "Green Planet" that warps into their area, they encounter Buzz, the commander and sole...

The newly divorced singer Kumi is not too enthusiastic about life as a single mother. She drops her son to her ex-husband, leaving her band and...

A young woman who escaped from prison is eventually captured and brought back. The evil warden decides to make her a pet project and tries to break...

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 man suicides causing ruin for his family, reasons are unknown, but his son will decide to take revenge after a succesion of events.

Naoko Tanaka is a 26-year-old office lady (OL). Her job is typical, but her workplace has fierce fights among different cliques. Other OLs are...