Yasuzō Masumura
Directing
Born 1924-08-25
Died 1986-11-23
Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan
74 credits
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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
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Directing
50 credits
Akai Shougeki
Irezumi
Red Angel
One Day at Summer's End
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Blind Beast
The Lowest Man
The Blue Sky Maiden
Akai Shisen
The Most Valuable Wife
Vixen
Manji
A Lustful Man
Giants and Toys
Lullaby of the Earth
The Garden of Eden
Warm Current
Love for an Idiot
Sentimental Mobsters
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
Afraid to Die
A Woman's Testament
Stolen Pleasure
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Games
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Lullaby of Death
Superexpress
Main Line to Terror
Beauty the Enemy
Two Wives
An Ode to Yakuza
Hoodlum Soldier
Black Test Car
A Wife Confesses
The House of Wooden Blocks
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
Love and Greed
The False Student
Play It Cool
Black Report
Seisaku's Wife
The Hot Little Girl
A Woman's Life
Red Storm
Thousand Cranes
Music
Kisses
When Women Lie
The School of Spies
Writing
16 credits
シークレット部隊
Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka
Vixen
Sentimental Mobsters
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
The Setting Sun
A Certain Killer
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Lullaby of Death
Superexpress
Main Line to Terror
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
The House of Wooden Blocks
Play It Cool
The Hot Little Girl
Music
Other credits
4 credits
Acting
2 credits
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