Known For
Directing
Known Credits
1
Gender
Male
Birthday
August 25, 1924 (101 years old)
Place of Birth
Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan
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.
| 2022 | The Setting Sun...Screenplay | |
| 1985 | Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka...Writer | |
| 1982 | Lullaby of Death...Writer | |
| 1978 | Double Suicide of Sonezaki...Screenplay | |
| 1975 | Main Line to Terror...Screenplay | |
| 1974 | Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?...Screenplay | |
| 1973 | Hanzo the Razor: The Snare...Screenplay | |
| 1972 | Music...Screenplay | |
| 1972 | New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line...Screenplay | |
| 1972 | シークレット部隊...Writer | |
| 1970 | Just for You...Screenplay | |
| 1970 | The Hot Little Girl...Writer | |
| 1970 | Play It Cool...Screenplay | |
| 1969 | Vixen...Screenplay | |
| 1968 | The House of Wooden Blocks...Screenplay | |
| 1968 | The Great Villains...Screenplay | |
| 1967 | A Certain Killer...Screenplay | |
| 1964 | Superexpress...Screenplay | |
| 1963 | Sentimental Mobsters...Screenplay | |
| 1959 | Across the Darkness...Writer |
| 1985 | Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka...Script | |
| 1963 | Black Report...Script |
| 1975 | Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Directoras Self |