Toshio Masuda
Known for: Directing
Born: October 5, 1927
Place of birth: Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
Toshio Masuda (born October 5, 1927 in Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan) is a Japanese film director. He developed a reputation as a consistent box office hit-maker. Over the course of five decades, 16 of his films made the yearly top ten lists at the Japanese box office—a second place record in the industry. Between 1958 and 1968 he directed 52 films for the Nikkatsu Company. He was their top director of action films and worked with the company's top stars, including Yujiro Ishihara with whom he made 25 films. After the breakdown of the studio system, he moved on to a succession of big-budget movies including the American-Japanese co-production Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and the science fiction epic Catastrophe 1999: The Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974). He worked on such anime productions as the Space Battleship Yamato series. His corporate drama Company Funeral (1989) earned him a Japanese Academy Award nomination and wins at the Blue Ribbon Awards and Mainichi Film Awards. In Japan, his films are well remembered by fans and called genre landmarks by critics. He remains little known abroad save for rare exceptions of his post-Nikkatsu work such as Tora! Tora! Tora!. However, a number of his films were screened in a 2005 Nikkatsu Action Cinema retrospective in Italy and a few have since made their way to the United States. At the age of 81, he is currently prepping to helm Uchū Senkan Yamato: Fukkatsu hen (2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article Toshio Masuda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
97 movies · 5 TV shows, newest first
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Father and Son Hawk
1994
NR
Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
1993
4.0
Heavenly Sin
1992NR
The Unruly Ronin's Journey II
1992
8.0
三国志
1992
NR
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
1992
8.0
Sure Death 5
1991
6.8
The Great Shogunate Battle
1991
NR
Dohten
1991
NR
Minamoto Yoshitsune
1990
NR
Miyamoto Musashi
1990
NR
The Yagyu Code: Secret Scrolls
1990
6.6
Company Executives
1989
9.0
Iemitsu, Hikoza and Isshin Tasuke - A National Crisis: Edo Castle in Danger
1989
8.0
This Story of Love
1987
6.2
Tokyo Blackout
1987
NR
Katayoku dake no tenshi
1986
NR
Vendetta of Obligation
1985
4.8
Odin: Starlight Mutiny
1985
4.7
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
6.1
Zero
1984
NR
L・O・V・I・N・G
1983
7.7
Battle Anthem
1983
6.8
Final Yamato
1983
5.9
Future War 198X
1982
8.0
Highteen Boogie
1982
5.5
The Imperial Japanese Empire
1982
NR
The Last Days of Planet Earth
1981
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The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
1981
7.4
Port Arthur
1980
7.5
Be Forever Yamato
1980
6.5
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
1979
4.6
Triton of the Sea
1979
7.7
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
1978
10.0
High Seas Hijack
1977
7.8
Space Battleship Yamato
1977
8.0
Human Revolution II
1976
7.0
Conflagration
1975
10.0
My Blood is the Blood of Others
1974
5.7
Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974
7.0
The Human Revolution
1973
8.1
Lone Wolf and Cub
1973
7.7
Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
1972
7.2
Shadow Hunters
1972
NR
Sword and Flower
1972
NR
Chase That Man
1972
9.0
Law of the Outlaw
1971
NR
Challenge at Dawn
1971
NR
Spartan Education
1970
7.2
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
10.0
The Cleanup
1969
10.0
The Fatal Raid
1969
NR
Exiled to Hell
1969
10.0
Monument to the Girl's Corps
1968
9.0
Man of a Stormy Era
1968
NR
Song of my Life
1968
6.7
Outlaw: Gangster VIP
1968
8.0
The Endless Duel
1967
6.8
Velvet Hustler
1967
10.0
対決
1967
6.0
The Man of Victory
1967
9.0
Challenge for Glory
1966
9.0
The Stormy Man
1966
NR
Kill the Night Rose
1966
7.0
Blood Shed
1966
9.0
Showdown in the Red Valley
1965
NR
Why Are We Young?
1965
9.0
Taking the Castle
1965
NR
Eliminate The Killer
1964
7.0
Jinsei Gekijo
1964
7.2
Red Handkerchief
1964
NR
Prince of Wolves
1963
NR
Escape into Terror
1963
8.0
A Man with Dragon Tattoos
1962
NR
Two People, Yet All Alone
1962
NR
零戦黒雲一家
1962
8.0
Keep Your Chin Up
1962
NR
Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
1962
9.0
Quiet Man of the Underworld
1961
NR
Lost in the Sun
1961
NR
Where the Horizon Meets the Sun
1961
NR
Hotbed of Crime
1961
9.0
Man at the Bullfight
1960
NR
The Brawler
1960
8.0
The Day of Youth
1960
7.0
Yakuza Song
1960
NR
The Sky Is Mine
1959
NR
A Man Explodes
1959
NR
We Live Today
1959
NR
Get Over Her
1959
6.2
The Perfect Game
1958
6.5
Red Pier
1958
5.9
Rusty Knife
1958
6.1
The Eagle and the Hawk
1957
6.7
The Champion
1957
NR
Dancing Sisters
1957
NR
Lunar Eclipse
1956
9.0
Nikoyon monogatari
1956
6.5
Phoenix
1956
7.8
The Burmese Harp
1956
NR
Evil Reward
1956
7.0
The Heart
1955