Yasuzō Masumura
69 movies · 5 TV shows
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Aug 25, 1924
- Died
- Nov 23, 1986 (age 62)
- Place of birth
- Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan
- Also known as
- Yasuzo Masumura · 増村 保造 · Masumura Yasuzō · 마스무라 야스조
Biography
Yasuzo Masumura (増村 保造 Masumura Yasuzō, August 25, 1924 - November 23, 1986) was a Japanese film director.
Masumura was born in Kōfu on Honshū. After dropping out of a law course at the University of Tokyo he worked as an assistant director at the Daiei studio, later returning to university to study philosophy; he graduated in 1949. He then won a scholarship allowing him to study film in Italy at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia under Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.
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Masumura returned to Japan in 1953 and from 1955 worked as a second-unit director on films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi and Kon Ichikawa, before directing his own first film, Kisses, in 1957. Over the next three decades he directed around 60 films in a variety of genres. His work is noted for his dark satire and fluid style. Notable films include Red Angel, Black Test Car, Giants and Toys, Blind Beast and Hoodlum Soldier.
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Known for
Yasuzō Masumura: movies and TV shows
Behind the camera (74)
- 2022 The Setting Sun
Screenplay
- 1985 Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka
Script
- 1985
- 1982 Lullaby of Death
Director, Writer
- 1980 The Garden of Eden
Director
- 1980
- 1979
- 1978
- 1978 Double Suicide of Sonezaki
Director, Screenplay
- 1976
- 1976 Lullaby of the Earth
Director
- 1975 Main Line to Terror
Screenplay, Director
- 1974 Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
Director
- 1974 Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
Screenplay
- 1973 Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Director, Screenplay
- 1972 Music
Director, Screenplay
- 1972 New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
Director, Screenplay
- 1972
- 1971 Games
Director
- 1970 Just for You
Screenplay
- 1970 The Hot Little Girl
Director, Writer
- 1970 An Ode to Yakuza
Director
- 1970 Play It Cool
Director, Screenplay
- 1969 Vixen
Director, Screenplay
- 1969 Thousand Cranes
Director
- 1969 Blind Beast
Director
- 1968 One Day at Summer's End
Director
- 1968 The House of Wooden Blocks
Director, Screenplay
- 1968 The Sex Check
Director
- 1968 The Great Villains
Screenplay, Director
- 1967 The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Director
- 1967 Love for an Idiot
Director
- 1967 A Certain Killer
Screenplay
- 1967 Two Wives
Director
- 1966 Red Angel
Director
- 1966 The School of Spies
Director
- 1966 Irezumi
Director
- 1965 Seisaku's Wife
Director
- 1965 Hoodlum Soldier
Director
- 1964 Superexpress
Director, Screenplay
- 1964 Manji
Director
- 1964 Love and Greed
Director
- 1964 Fools at Work
Director
- 1963 Sentimental Mobsters
Director, Screenplay
- 1963 When Women Lie
Director
- 1963 Black Report
Script, Director
- 1962 A Woman's Life
Director
- 1962 Black Test Car
Director
- 1962 Stolen Pleasure
Director
- 1961 The Burdened Sisters
Director
- 1961 A Wife Confesses
Director
- 1961 A Lustful Man
Director
- 1961 Love and Life
Director
- 1960 The False Student
Director
- 1960 The Woman Who Touched Legs
Director
- 1960 Afraid to Die
Director
- 1960 A Woman's Testament
Director
- 1959 Across the Darkness
Director, Writer
- 1959 Beauty the Enemy
Director
- 1959 The Cast-Off
Director
- 1959 The Most Valuable Wife
Director
- 1958 Disobedience
Director
- 1958 The Lowest Man
Director
- 1958 Giants and Toys
Director
- 1958 The Precipice
Director
- 1957 Warm Current
Director
- 1957 The Blue Sky Maiden
Director
- 1957 Kisses
Director
- 1957 The Crowded Train
Assistant Director
- 1956 Bridge of Japan
Assistant Director
- 1956 Punishment Room
Assistant Director
- 1956 Street of Shame
Assistant Director
- 1955 Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Assistant Director
- 1954 Madame Butterfly
Assistant Director
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1975