Toshio Masuda
Directing
Born 1927-10-05
Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
101 credits
Mainichi Film Award for Best Director 1
Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director 1
Awards
Won 1 Mainichi Film Award for Best Director Award
Mainichi Film Award for Best Director 1 won
- — Best Director Won
Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director 1 won
- 1990 Best Director Won
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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).
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Filmography
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Directing
51 credits
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Lone Wolf and Cub
Miyamoto Musashi
Port Arthur
Blood Shed
Highteen Boogie
Future War 198X
The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
Love: Starting on a Journey
Sword and Flower
Space Battleship Yamato
Father and Son Hawk
Prophecies of Nostradamus
My Blood is the Blood of Others
Be Forever Yamato
Odin: Starlight Mutiny
Sure Death 5
Human Revolution II
Battle Anthem
The Imperial Japanese Empire
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
Tokyo Blackout
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
Zero
Outlaw: Gangster VIP
Kill the Night Rose
L・O・V・I・N・G
Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
Red Handkerchief
Company Executives
A Man with Dragon Tattoos
The Yagyu Code: Secret Scrolls
Minamoto Yoshitsune
Red Pier
The Human Revolution
Shadow Hunters
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
Velvet Hustler
Heavenly Sin
The Day of Youth
Monument to the Girl's Corps
対決
Keep Your Chin Up
The Perfect Game
The Brawler
Taking the Castle
Get Over Her
The Great Shogunate Battle
Katayoku dake no tenshi
Spartan Education
Writing
20 credits
Blood Shed
Highteen Boogie
The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
Love: Starting on a Journey
Conflagration
My Blood is the Blood of Others
Be Forever Yamato
Final Yamato
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
Tokyo Blackout
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
The Champion
三国志
Red Handkerchief
The Last Days of Planet Earth
Red Pier
Velvet Hustler
対決
Taking the Castle
Get Over Her
Other credits
4 credits
Acting
2 credits
Producing
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