The Directors Guild of Japan held the first large-scaled corporate funeral for Murata at Tokyo St. Mary's cathedral in Koishikawa and Kenji MIZOGUCHI, Kiyohiko USHIHARA, Yasujiro SHIMAZU, Teinosuke KINUGASA, Kintaro INOUE, and Junichiro AOSHIMA carried the coffin over their shoulders and placed it on an alter.
葬儀は小石川の東京カテドラル聖マリア大聖堂で初の映画監督協会葬として盛大に開かれ、棺は溝口健二、牛原虚彦、島津保次郎、衣笠貞之助、井上金太郎、青島順一郎の肩に担がれ祭壇に安置された。