Masahiro Makino
147 movies · 1 TV show
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Feb 29, 1908
- Died
- Oct 29, 1993 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- Kyoto, Japan
- Also known as
- Masatada Makino · Daikichi Risshun · マキノ 雅弘 · マキノ正博
Biography
Masahiro Makino (マキノ 雅弘, Makino Masahiro, February 29, 1908 - October 29, 1993) was a Japanese film director. He directed more than 260 films, primarily in the chanbara and yakuza genres. His real name was Masatada (正唯), but he took the stage name Masahiro, the kanji for which he changed multiple times (including 雅広, 正博, and 雅裕).
Masahiro Makino was born in Kyoto, the eldest son of the film director and producer Shōzō Makino, who is often called the father of Japanese cinema. As a youth he acted in over 100 films before debuting as a film director in 1926 at age 18.
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His critically acclaimed nihilistic jidaigeki such as Roningai (1928) made him one of the top Japanese film directors, but his way of shooting films quickly also earned him detractors. For instance, the total time it took to shoot the 1936 film Edo no Ka Oshō was only 28 hours.The critic Sadao Yamane, however, has argued that this fast filming practice also contributed to Makino's speedy, rhythmic film style. Rhythm and tempo are important to his films, and so in his jidaigeki, fight scenes like in Kettō Takadanobaba (1937) could seem like dances, or entire sequences, like in Awa no Odoriko (1941), could be filled with dance. He made musicals like Singing Lovebirds (1939) and even his wartime propaganda films like Hanako-san and Ahen senso (both 1943) could have Busby Berkeley-like musical numbers.
After the war, he helmed such popular jidaigeki series as Jirōchō Sangokushi and such ninkyō eiga series as Nihon Kyōkaku-den. He directed his last film in 1972, the retirement film for Junko Fuji, completing a filmography that totaled over 260 films and included films of many genres.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 6.2 Ronin-gai
1990 · Film
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★ 7.7 Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
1969 · Film
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★ 6.5 The Domain
1964 · Film
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★ 6.5 Street of Ronin
1957 · Film
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★ 5.7 Victory Song
1945 · Film
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★ 6.3 Singing Lovebirds
1939 · Film
- ★ 6.2
Samurai Town Story Part I
1928 · Film
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★ 5.8 A Revengeful Raid
1962 · Film
Masahiro Makino: movies and TV shows
Acting (5)
- 1928 Raiden
as Docotr Chikuan
- 1921
- 1916
- 1916
- 1914
Behind the camera (143)
- 1990 Ronin-gai
Co-Director
- 1972
- 1972 The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
Director
- 1971 The Path of the King
Director
- 1970
- 1970 Born Fighter
Director
- 1970 Peonies And Dragons
Director
- 1970 Woman Boss
Director, Screenplay
- 1969 Bad Reputation: Showdown of the Best
Writer, Director
- 1969 Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
Director, Screenplay
- 1969 The Domain: Flower and Dragon
Director
- 1969
- 1968 New Prison Walls of Abashiri
Director
- 1968 Rogue
Director
- 1968 Histories of the Chivalrous
Director
- 1968 The Domain: Severed Relations
Director
- 1967 The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
Director
- 1967 Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Director
- 1967 The Chivalrous Life
Director
- 1967 The Domain: White Blade
Director
- 1966 Debt of Honor
Director
- 1966 The Domain: Duel at Thunder Gate
Director
- 1966 Japan's Most Chivalrous
Director
- 1966 The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
Director
- 1965 One Man's Chivalry
Director
- 1965 The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
Writer, Director
- 1965
- 1965 Chocho and Yuji's Marital Goodness
Director
- 1965 Irogotoshi harudanji
Director
- 1965 The Domain: The Naniwa Story
Director
- 1964 The Domain
Director
- 1964 The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
Writer, Director
- 1963 The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
Screenplay, Director
- 1963 The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
Director, Screenplay
- 1963 Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
Director
- 1963
- 1963 Tattoo of Love
Director
- 1963 53 Stages of Action
Screenplay, Director
- 1962 A Revengeful Raid
Director, Screenplay
- 1962 Yakuza Official
Director, Screenplay
- 1962 Lady Sen and Hideyori
Director
- 1962
- 1961
- 1961 Works of the Fish Man
Director
- 1961 Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
Director, Screenplay
- 1961 Mask of the Moon
Director
- 1961 Edo Purebreed
Director
- 1960 Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
Director, Writer
- 1960 The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
Director
- 1960 Runway to Hell
Director
- 1960 Yakuza of Ina
Director, Screenplay
- 1959 An Actor's Revenge
Director
- 1959 Evil Man of Edo
Director
- 1959 Echo in the Mountains
Director
- 1959 Whirlwind Magistrate
Director
- 1959 Goblin in Stirrups
Director
- 1958 Fighting Disposition
Director
- 1958 Kanbei's Bargain Sale
Director
- 1958 The Traveling Ruffian
Screenplay, Director
- 1958 Fearless Opposition
Director
- 1958 Bull's Eye of Love
Screenplay, Director
- 1957
- 1957 Temple of Revenge
Director
- 1957 Street of Ronin
Director, Screenplay
- 1957 Pure-Hearted Unit
Director
- 1956
- 1956 Eacape of Fear
Director
- 1955 Such is Life
Director, Screenplay
- 1955 Blood Festival of Akagi
Director
- 1955
- 1955 Jirochô yûkyôden: Akiba no himatsuri
Director
- 1954 Daikichi Konomura
Screenplay, Director
- 1954 Jirocho in Disgrace
Director
- 1954 Yakuza bayashi
Director, Screenplay
- 1954 Last of the Wild Ones
Director
- 1954 My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men
Director
- 1954 Utsukushiki taka
Director
- 1954 Jirocho's New Year
Director
- 1953 Jirocho, the Hunted
Director
- 1953 Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Director
- 1953 Zoku Tange Sazen
Director
- 1953 Tange Sazen
Director
- 1953 Jirocho's Home-Coming
Director
- 1953 Her Captive Gamblers
Director
- 1953 The Last Embrace
Director
- 1953 Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Director
- 1953 Night in Hawaii
Director
- 1952 Jirocho Rises in Fame
Director
- 1952 武蔵と小次郎
Director
- 1952 Suttobi kago
Director
- 1952 Divorce
Director
- 1952 Grease Paint Serenade
Director
- 1951 豪快三人男
Director
- 1951 The Killing of Otsuya
Director
- 1951
- 1950 A Thousand Standards of Stone
Director
- 1950
- 1950 Fencing Master
Director
- 1950 Sugawara denju tenarai kagami
Director
- 1949 Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
Director
- 1948 Ghosts Die at Dawn
Director
- 1948 Gate of Flesh
Director
- 1948 Golden Devil Part 2
Director
- 1948 Golden Devil
Director
- 1946 Nonkina tosan
Director
- 1946 Waiting Woman
Director
- 1946 Iki na fûraibô
Producer, Director
- 1945 Sennichimae fukin
Director
- 1945 Victory Song
Director, Producer
- 1945 The Famous Sword Bijomaru
Executive Producer
- 1944 Field Army Orchestra
Director
- 1944 Sinking the Unsinkable
Director
- 1944 Tengu daoshi
Producer
- 1943 Miss Hanako
Director
- 1943 The Opium War
Director
- 1942 Onna keizu
Director
- 1942 The Man Who Waited
Director
- 1941 A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Director
- 1941 世紀は笑ふ
Director
- 1941 Dancers of Awa
Director, Writer
- 1941 Iemitsu and Hikoza
Director
- 1941 The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
Director
- 1940 Zoku Shimizu Minato
Director
- 1940 Oda Nobunaga
Director
- 1939 Singing Lovebirds
Director
- 1938 Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
Director
- 1938 Chushingura
Director
- 1938 Kurama Tengu
Director
- 1937 Jiraiya
Director
- 1937 Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
Director
- 1937 Echo of Love
Director
- 1937 honchō kai neko Tsutō
Director
- 1936 Goronbo-gai
Director
- 1936 Kunisada Chūji: Shinshū komoriuta
Screenplay, Director
- 1932 Banquet Under the Midnight Sun
Director
- 1929
- 1929 Beheading Place
Director
- 1929 The Demon at the Modoribashi Bridge
Director
- 1929 Samurai Town Story Part II
Director
- 1928 Sozenji Baba
Director
- 1928 Samurai Town Story Part I
Director
- 1928 Keai-dori
Director
- 1925 中山安兵衛
Assistant Director