Murota Hideo

Aaron Gerow gerow
Sun Jun 16 22:40:24 EDT 2002


According to the news, Murota Hideo, one of Japan's most celebrated 
byplayers, died on the 15th of cancer. He was 64.

Murota began his acting career at Toei and appeared in, according to some 
reports, over 1000 films until his death (though the JMDB only lists 
183). He was most famous for his villainous roles in yakuza series like 
Jingi naki tatakai, but he also appeared in many other roles on TV and 
film. He was also a favorite of Ishii Takashi (I particularly remember 
him from Shindemo ii). He last film was Yoshida Yoshishige's Kagami no 
onna-tachi, which showed at Cannes this year and will be released in 
October in Japan.

Aaron Gerow
Yokohama National University
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