Takehiro Murata

Born: 1960-03-18

Takehiro Murata (村田雄浩 Murata Takehiro) is a Japanese actor who has appeared in various Godzilla films in both the Heisei and Millennium series, in both major roles and small cameos. He has also appeared in multiple of Juzo Itami's films.


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Pom Poko

as Bunta (voice)
Released: 1994-07-16

The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of...

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Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

as Yukari's Editor
Released: 1995-12-09

A burning Godzilla, on the verge of meltdown, emerges to lay siege to Hong Kong. At the same...

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Godzilla vs. Mothra

as Kenji Andoh
Released: 1992-12-12

Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two...

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Godzilla 2000: Millennium

as Yuji Shinoda
Released: 1999-12-11

An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track...

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When the Last Sword Is Drawn

as Chiaki Ono
Released: 2003-01-18

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children...

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Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

as Taro Wakasugi
Released: 1992-05-16

An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help...

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Labyrinth of Cinema

as Saigo Takamori
Released: 2020-07-31

The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of...

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Casting Blossoms to the Sky

as Tamio Mori
Released: 2012-05-12

In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a...

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Vengeance for Sale

as Taro
Released: 2002-02-16

In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in...

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Hanagatami

as Professor Yamauchi
Released: 2017-12-16

Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where...

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The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood

as uncredited
Released: 2021-04-09

In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in...

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Free and Easy 11

as uncredited
Released: 2000-02-05

Hama-chan accompanies Su-san on a business trip to Okinawa in the middle of the recession, but...

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Woman in Witness Protection

as Detective Chikamatsu
Released: 1997-09-27

Biwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very...

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Okoge

as Goh Yoshino
Released: 1992-05-26

A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his...

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The Last Dance

as Doctor
Released: 1993-05-29

A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on...

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Wait and See

as Sawachika
Released: 1998-12-19

A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to...

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Open House

as Miyake
Released: 1998-06-20

A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo.

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The Motive

as Ishikawa, Police
Released: 2004-12-18

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims...

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Pride

as Kiyoshi Itou
Released: 1998-05-23

Based on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of 1946–48, depicts Japanese prime...

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Natural Woman

as Tsuji
Released: 2010-04-17

Yoko and Hanayo fell in love while working together as manga artist at their university...

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Scenery to Remember

as uncredited
Released: 2008-11-01

Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and...

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Seven Weeks

as Fuyuki Suzuki
Released: 2014-05-17

Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious...

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Twilight Phantom

as uncredited
Released: 2007-06-09

Misaki visits her boyfriend Koichi in Okinawa, the southern island of Japan. To welcome the...

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Goodbye for Tomorrow

as Takashi Karaki
Released: 1995-09-23

People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3...

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Foster Daddy, Tora!

as Sadao
Released: 1980-12-27

After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her...

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Solitary Scream 2 DARKNESS

as uncredited
Released: 2017-02-17

Sequel to 'Solitary Scream'.

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Law of Yakuza

as uncredited
Released: 2016-01-13

Straight to video Yakuza film.

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Goryokaku

as uncredited
Released: 1988-12-30

After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former...

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ベトナムのひびき

as uncredited
Released: 2024-03-02

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最上の命医 2019

as Ryuzo Nakagomi
Released: 2019-10-02

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Blossoming Into a Family

as Doctor Shimada
Released: 2017-01-21

“I never got to feel the warmth of a loving family.” That is what Seishiro notes down in 1948,...

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Raia Prays For…

as bartender
Released: 2015-06-13

Goro is an archeologist, fascinated with the national treasure Gassho clay figure and remains...

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Love Tomato

as uncredited
Released: 2006-05-13

Middle-aged farmer Noda Masao (Daichi Yasuo) is a good, honest man, but his attempts for...

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Song of Goodbye

as Father of flower bell
Released: 2007-08-18

It is the second work of the Oita trilogy of Obayashi . Following " Nigori Snow ", Ise Masazo...

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Turning Point

as uncredited
Released: 1994-06-18

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the...

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Partners

as uncredited
Released: 2010-11-06

19-year-old freeter (a Japanese expression for people between the ages of 15 and 34 who lack...

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I am.

as Tanabe
Released: 2010-01-23

Miki, a nursing care robot, is popular among some medical staff and patients for her dainty and...

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Returning the Favor

as Ichiro Kitahara
Released: 2006-03-22

Kitahara Kazunori was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma in the fall of his second year in high...

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Laws of Yakuza Chapter 2

as uncredited
Released: 2016-07-13

'Laws of Yakuza' sequel.

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A Murder Is Announced

as Onigawara Banroku
Released: 2019-04-14

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

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Chichi kara no tegami

as uncredited
Released: 2007-12-23

Inuzuka (Hirotaro Honda), who asked about Mamiko (Rei Dan)'s disappeared father, Shinkichi (Ren...

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Adan

as uncredited
Released: 2006-05-20

Biopic of painter Tanaka Isson

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Kôtei ni kochi fuite

as uncredited
Released: 2016-09-17

A drama in which Yasuko Sawaguchi starred in the movie for the first time in nine years since...

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祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―

as uncredited
Released: 2021-08-20

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Goku Oh 2

as uncredited
Released: 2019-07-25

Seven years have passed - Takeru Kanzaki (Kazumi Matsuda), the Wakamiya clan's Wakamiya head of...

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Bounty Dog WANTED!

as uncredited
Released: 1995-03-01

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Solitary Scream

as uncredited
Released: 2017-01-20

Heinous. Two wolves haunted by the past. Can you hear the gunshot?-Is it his voice?- Starring:...

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Mother

as uncredited
Released: 1988-04-29

From the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated,...

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Solitary Gourmet

as 滝山
First aired: 2012-01-04

Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for...

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Kimi no na wa

as 末永保
First aired: 1991-04-02

A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.

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CSI: Crime Scene Talks

as uncredited
First aired: 2011-04-13

Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police...

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Kumokiri Nizaemon

as uncredited
First aired: 2013-04-10

During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active...

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Keiji 7-nin

as uncredited
First aired: 2015-07-15

Amagi Yu is a slightly eccentric detective who has been assigned to the Twelfth Section of the...

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人形佐七捕物帳

as uncredited
First aired: 2016-10-04

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Byplayers ~Meiwakiyaku no Mori no 100-nichikan~

as uncredited
First aired: 2021-01-08

Set in "Byplaywood" a large film studio surrounded by forest, far from the city. The story...

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Sayoko is Back

as Mr.Kurokawa
First aired: 2000-04-08

Nishihama Junior High School is haunted by the legend of Sayoko. Every three years a student is...

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Dakishimetai!

as uncredited
First aired: 1988-07-07

Asako Ikeuchi and Natsuko Hayakawa have been close friends for more than 25 years. Natsuko's...

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Haru and Natsu

as Chuji Takakura
First aired: 2005-10-02

As Haru emigrates from Japan with her family to the coffee plantations in Brazil, Natsu is left...

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Coach

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-07-04

Kubota Nagisa, a spoiled brash executive, is the chief of Food Import Section in a first-rate...

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Shin Onna Kenji Kasumi Yuko

as 霞友行
First aired: 1994-05-03

Onna Kenji Kasumi Yuko is a TV drama series that aired on Nippon Television's "Tuesday Suspense...

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