Yasuzō Masumura
Known for: Directing
Born: August 25, 1924
Died: November 23, 1986
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.
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Filmography
70 movies · 5 TV shows, newest first
6.0
The Setting Sun
2022
NR
Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka
1985
NR
Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka
1985
6.3
Lullaby of Death
1982
3.7
The Garden of Eden
1980
8.0
Akai Shisen
1980
NR
Red Storm
1979NR
The primary colored butterfly was watching - the smell of death
1978
6.3
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
1978
7.0
Akai Shougeki
1976
6.4
Lullaby of the Earth
1976
6.2
Main Line to Terror
1975
7.2
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1975
7.0
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
5.8
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
1974
6.2
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
1973
4.6
Music
1972
7.1
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
1972
NR
シークレット部隊
1972
6.5
Games
1971
10.0
Just for You
1970
4.7
The Hot Little Girl
1970
7.0
An Ode to Yakuza
1970
5.0
Play It Cool
1970
6.7
Vixen
1969
8.2
Thousand Cranes
1969
6.5
Blind Beast
1969
6.5
One Day at Summer's End
1968
6.7
The House of Wooden Blocks
1968
8.0
The Sex Check
1968
5.2
The Great Villains
1968
6.7
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
6.0
Love for an Idiot
1967
6.9
A Certain Killer
1967
7.3
Two Wives
1967
7.6
Red Angel
1966
6.6
The School of Spies
1966
6.9
Irezumi
1966
7.3
Seisaku's Wife
1965
7.2
Hoodlum Soldier
1965
8.0
Superexpress
1964
6.5
Manji
1964
7.8
Love and Greed
1964
8.0
Fools at Work
1964
7.0
Sentimental Mobsters
1963
8.0
When Women Lie
1963
6.6
Black Report
1963
7.5
A Woman's Life
1962
7.1
Black Test Car
1962
7.2
Stolen Pleasure
1962
10.0
The Burdened Sisters
1961
6.7
A Wife Confesses
1961
5.6
A Lustful Man
1961
9.0
Love and Life
1961
6.7
The False Student
1960
7.0
The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
6.3
Afraid to Die
1960
6.4
A Woman's Testament
1960
9.0
Across the Darkness
1959
7.5
Beauty the Enemy
1959
8.0
The Cast-Off
1959
8.0
The Most Valuable Wife
1959
8.0
Disobedience
1958
9.0
The Lowest Man
1958
7.1
Giants and Toys
1958
9.0
The Precipice
1958
7.8
Warm Current
1957
7.0
The Blue Sky Maiden
1957
6.8
Kisses
1957
6.8
The Crowded Train
1957
7.8
Bridge of Japan
1956
6.9
Punishment Room
1956
7.7
Street of Shame
1956
6.7
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
8.0
Madame Butterfly
1954