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Yasuzō Masumura

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
1

Gender
Male

Birthday
August 25, 1924 (101 years old)

Place of Birth
Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan

Yasuzō Masumura

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.

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.

Known For

Writing

2022The Setting Sun...Screenplay
1985Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka...Writer
1982Lullaby of Death...Writer
1978Double Suicide of Sonezaki...Screenplay
1975Main Line to Terror...Screenplay
1974Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?...Screenplay
1973Hanzo the Razor: The Snare...Screenplay
1972Music...Screenplay
1972New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line...Screenplay
1972シークレット部隊...Writer
1970Just for You...Screenplay
1970The Hot Little Girl...Writer
1970Play It Cool...Screenplay
1969Vixen...Screenplay
1968The House of Wooden Blocks...Screenplay
1968The Great Villains...Screenplay
1967A Certain Killer...Screenplay
1964Superexpress...Screenplay
1963Sentimental Mobsters...Screenplay
1959Across the Darkness...Writer

Crew

1985Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka...Script
1963Black Report...Script

Directing

1982Lullaby of Death...Director
1980The Garden of Eden...Director
1980Akai Shisen...Director
1979Red Storm...Director
1978The primary colored butterfly was watching - the smell of death...Director
1978Double Suicide of Sonezaki...Director
1976Akai Shougeki...Director
1976Lullaby of the Earth...Director
1975Main Line to Terror...Director
1974Akumyo: Notorious Dragon...Director
1973Hanzo the Razor: The Snare...Director
1972Music...Director
1972New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line...Director
1971Games...Director
1970The Hot Little Girl...Director
1970An Ode to Yakuza...Director
1970Play It Cool...Director
1969Vixen...Director
1969Thousand Cranes...Director
1969Blind Beast...Director
1968One Day at Summer's End...Director
1968The House of Wooden Blocks...Director
1968The Sex Check...Director
1968The Great Villains...Director
1967The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka...Director
1967Love for an Idiot...Director
1967Two Wives...Director
1966Red Angel...Director
1966The School of Spies...Director
1966Irezumi...Director
1965Seisaku's Wife...Director
1965Hoodlum Soldier...Director
1964Superexpress...Director
1964Manji...Director
1964Love and Greed...Director
1964Fools at Work...Director
1963Sentimental Mobsters...Director
1963When Women Lie...Director
1963Black Report...Director
1962A Woman's Life...Director
1962Black Test Car...Director
1962Stolen Pleasure...Director
1961The Burdened Sisters...Director
1961A Wife Confesses...Director
1961A Lustful Man...Director
1961Love and Life...Director
1960The False Student...Director
1960The Woman Who Touched Legs...Director
1960Afraid to Die...Director
1960A Woman's Testament...Director
1959Across the Darkness...Director
1959Beauty the Enemy...Director
1959The Cast-Off...Director
1959The Most Valuable Wife...Director
1958Disobedience...Director
1958The Lowest Man...Director
1958Giants and Toys...Director
1958The Precipice...Director
1957Warm Current...Director
1957The Blue Sky Maiden...Director
1957Kisses...Director
1956Bridge of Japan...Assistant Director
1956Punishment Room...Assistant Director
1956Street of Shame...Assistant Director
1955Princess Yang Kwei-fei...Assistant Director
1954Madame Butterfly...Assistant Director

Acting

1975Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Directoras Self