{{Short description|Japanese actor (1937–2002)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Hideo Murota | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|10|7|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Otaru]], [[Hokkaido]], Japan | death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|6|15|1937|10|7|df=y}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1953–2002 | spouse = | website = }}
{{nihongo|'''Hideo Murota'''|室田 日出男|Murota Hideo|extra=7 October 1937 – 15 June 2002}} was a Japanese actor who specialized in playing villains and tough guys.<ref name=kotoba/> In 1957, he signed a contract with Toei Studio<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eigadb.com/search-all/form?AllSearchForm%5Bkeyword%5D=%E5%AE%A4%E7%94%B0%E6%97%A5%E5%87%BA%E7%94%B7|title=Hideo Murota profile|work=映画DB|accessdate= August 7, 2021}}</ref>{{Dead link|date=November 2025}} and appeared in over 1000 films.<ref name="kotoba">{{cite web |title=20世紀日本人名事典「室田 日出男」の解説 |trans-title=Explanation of "Murota Hideo" in the 20th Century Japanese Biographical Dictionary |url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%AE%A4%E7%94%B0%20%E6%97%A5%E5%87%BA%E7%94%B7-1656645 |accessdate=August 6, 2021 |publisher=kotobank}}</ref> He won the Best Supporting Actor award at the [[Yokohama Film Festival]] for his role in ''[[Original Sin (1992 film)|Shinde mo ii]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Yokohama_Film_Festival/1993|access-date=2009-04-16|publisher=[[Internet Movie Database]]|title=Yokohama Film Festival: 1993}}</ref><ref name=kotoba/>
==Selected filmography== ===Film=== {{Div col}} *1953: ''Daibosatsu Tôge - Dai-ni-bu: Mibu to Shimabara no maki; Miwa kamisugi no maki'' - Takagawa *1960: ''Bôso omote he derô'' *1961: ''Hachi-nin me no teki'' *1961: ''Shin jinsei gekijô'' *1962: ''Ankoku-gai saigo no hi'' *1962: ''Nerai uchi no buraikan'' *1963: ''Tokubetsu kidô sôsatai'' *1963: ''Tokubetsu kidô sôsatai: Tokyo eki ni harikome'' *1963: ''Ankokugai saidai no kettô'' - Ishigami *1963: ''Asakusa no kyôkaku'' *1963: ''Showa kyokyaku den'' *1963: ''Yakuza no uta'' *1963: ''Tôkyô gyangu tai Honkon gyangu'' *1964: ''[[Wolves, Pigs and Men]]'' - Mizuhara *1964: ''Doro inu'' *1965: ''[[A Fugitive from the Past]]'' - Pressman *1965: ''Himo'' *1965: ''Kuroi neko'' - Sagawa *1965: ''Nippon dorobô monogatari'' - Saiki, News reporter *1965: ''Zoku Abashiri bangaichi'' *1965: ''Shôwa zankyô-den'' - Yakuza *1965: ''Gyangu chôjô sakusen'' - Chin *1966: ''Shôwa zankyô-den: Karajishi botan'' *1966: ''[[The Threat (1966 film)|The Threat]]'' - Sabu *1966: ''Otoko no shôbu'' *1966: ''Kaitei daisensô'' - Henchman *1966: ''Ninkyô yawara ichidai'' *1966: ''Umi no koto'' - Guest *1966: ''Otoko dokyô de shobû'' *1966: ''[[Kamikaze Man: Duel at Noon]]'' - Detective *1966: ''[[Rampaging Dragon of the North]]'' - Gen Ashida *1967: ''[[Ceremony of Disbanding]]'' - Nakanishi *1967: ''Soshiki bôryoku'' *1967: ''Kawachi yûkyôden'' - Sutezo *1967: ''Zoku soshiki bôryoku'' - Detective Sawai *1967: ''Choueki juhachi-nen: kari shutsugoku'' *1968: ''Rikugun chôhô 33'' - Oku *1968: ''Kaidan hebi-onna'' - Saiji *1968: ''Uragiri no ankokugai'' - Barman *1968: ''[[Blackmail Is My Life]]'' - Seki *1968: ''Gokuchu no kaoyaku'' *1968: ''[[Gambler's Farewell]]'' *1968: ''Ah, yokaren'' - Teacher *1969: ''[[Black Rose Mansion]]'' - Kyohei's son - Wataru's brother *1969: ''[[Japan Organized Crime Boss]]'' *1970: ''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]'' - Japanese Pilot (uncredited) *1972: ''[[Street Mobster]]'' - Miyahara *1972: ''[[Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion]]'' - Okizaki *1972: ''[[Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler]]'' - Tadokoro *1972: ''[[Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41]]'' - Okizaki *1972: ''[[Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers]]'' *1973: ''[[Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima]]'' - Keisuke Nakahara *1973: ''[[Hissatsu Shikakenin]]'' - Matajûrô Mineyama *1973: ''[[Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War]]'' - Hideo Hayakawa *1973: ''[[Karate Kiba]]'' - Hijacker A *1973: ''[[Bodigaado Kiba: Hissatsu sankaku tobi]]'' - Tatsumi Masaru *1974: ''[[Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics]]'' - Hideo Hayakawa *1974: ''Violent Streets'' - Mochizuki *1974: ''[[Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs]]'' - Masashi Kusaka *1974: ''[[Executioner (1974 film)|Executioner]]'' - Boss *1974: ''[[Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread]]'' - Kazushige Osone *1974: ''[[New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974 film)|New Battles Without Honor and Humanity]]'' - Masuo Nozaki *1975: ''[[Graveyard of Honor (1975 film)|Graveyard of Honor]]'' - Yasuo Matsuoka *1975: ''[[Cops vs. Thugs]]'' - Tsukahara *1975: ''[[Gambling Den Heist]]'' - Kumakichi *1975: ''[[Cross the Rubicon!]]'' *1975: ''[[Champion of Death]]'' *1975: ''[[New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head]]'' - Takeo Akamatsu *1976: ''[[Violent Panic: The Big Crash]]'' *1976: ''[[Karate Warriors]]'' *1976: ''[[Yakuza Graveyard]]'' - Hidaka *1976: ''[[The Classroom of Terror]]'' *1976: ''[[Yakuza Graveyard]]'' *1977: ''[[Karate for Life]]'' *1977: ''[[Doberman Cop (1977 film)|Doberman Cop]]'' - Jiro Takahashi *1977: ''[[Proof of the Man]]'' - Detective at Yokota *1978: ''[[Shogun's Samurai]]'' - Sagenta Nogero (Leader of Negoro Clan) *1978: ''[[Talk of the Town Tora-san]]'' - Soeda *1979: ''[[Hunter in the Dark]]'' - Hino *1980: ''[[Kagemusha]]'' - Nobufusa Baba *1980: ''[[The Beast to Die]]'' - Hideyuki Kashiwagi *1981: ''[[Samurai Reincarnation]]'' - Priest Inshun Hozoin *1981: ''[[Station (1981 film)|Station]]'' - Shigeru Morioka *1982: ''[[Onimasa]]'' - Sagara *1982: ''[[The Go Masters]]'' *1983: ''[[Theater of Life (1983 film)|Theater of Life]]'' as Narahei *1983: ''[[Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence]]'' - New Commandant of Camp *1983: ''[[The Go Masters]]'' *1985: ''[[Seburi monogatari]]'' - Kuzushiri *1986: ''[[Minami e Hashire, Umi no Michi o!]]'' - Kazuyuki Kiryu *1986: ''[[Tokei – Adieu l'hiver]]'' *1987: ''[[A Taxing Woman]]'' - Jūkichi Ishii *1987: ''[[Sure Death 4: Revenge]]'' - Yahei Hirano *1987: ''Kyofu-no yacchan'' - Sentaro Jinnai *1987: ''[[Abunai deka]]'' *1990: ''[[Heaven and Earth (1990 film)|Heaven and Earth]]'' - Obu Masatora *1990: ''[[Ready to Shoot]]'' *1991: ''[[Hiruko the Goblin]]'' - Watanabe *1992: ''[[Original Sin (1992 film)|Original Sin]]'' - Hideki Tsuchiya *1993: ''[[Nemuranai Machi: Shinjuku Same|The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark]]'' - Momoi *1995: ''[[Gonin]]'' - Shikine *2000: ''Isola: Tajuu jinkaku shôjo'' - Old victim of the Great Hanshin Earthquake *2002: ''[[Women in the Mirror]]'' - Goda {{div col end}}
===Television=== *''[[Seven Color Mask|Shin Seven Color Mask]]'' (1960) *''[[National Kid]]'' (1960) *''[[Key Hunter]]'' (1968-73) (26 appearances as a guest star) *''[[Hissatsu Shikakenin]]'' (1972) (ep. 1) *''[[G-Men '75]]'' (1975) (ep. 1 and 8) *''Zenryaku Ofukurosama'' (1975-77) *''[[Ōgon no Hibi]]'' (1978) as [[Hachisuka Masakatsu]] *''[[Taiyō ni Hoero!]]'' (1986) (ep. 696) *''[[Abunai Deka]]'' (1986) (ep. 50) *''Hōjō Tokimune'' (2001) as Hattori Masaemon
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|id= 0614039 |name= Hideo Murota}} * [http://www.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/person.aspx?person_id=85615 Hideo Murota at Kinenote]
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