Masahiro Makino
Directing
Born 1908-02-29
Died 1993-10-29
Kyoto, Japan
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Masahiro Makino (マキノ 雅弘, Makino Masahiro, February 29, 1908 - October 29, 1993) was a Japanese film director. He directed more than 260 films, primarily in the chanbara and yakuza genres. His real name was Masatada (正唯), but he took the stage name Masahiro, the kanji for which he changed multiple times (including 雅広, 正博, and 雅裕).
Masahiro Makino was born in Kyoto, the eldest son of the film director and producer Shōzō Makino, who is often called the father of Japanese cinema. As a youth he acted in over 100 films before debuting as a film director in 1926 at age 18.
His critically acclaimed nihilistic jidaigeki such as Roningai (1928) made him one of the top Japanese film directors, but his way of shooting films quickly also earned him detractors. For instance, the total time it took to shoot the 1936 film Edo no Ka Oshō was only 28 hours.The critic Sadao Yamane, however, has argued that this fast filming practice also contributed to Makino's speedy, rhythmic film style. Rhythm and tempo are important to his films, and so in his jidaigeki, fight scenes like in Kettō Takadanobaba (1937) could seem like dances, or entire sequences, like in Awa no Odoriko (1941), could be filled with dance. He made musicals like Singing Lovebirds (1939) and even his wartime propaganda films like Hanako-san and Ahen senso (both 1943) could have Busby Berkeley-like musical numbers.
After the war, he helmed such popular jidaigeki series as Jirōchō Sangokushi and such ninkyō eiga series as Nihon Kyōkaku-den. He directed his last film in 1972, the retirement film for Junko Fuji, completing a filmography that totaled over 260 films and included films of many genres.
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Directing
58 credits
The Last Embrace
Her Captive Gamblers
Jirocho, the Hunted
Jirocho's Home-Coming
Runway to Hell
The Shin Hasegawa Series
Jirocho's New Year
Chushingura
Debt of Honor
Born Fighter
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Banquet Under the Midnight Sun
Kurama Tengu
Ronin-gai
Evil Man of Edo
My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men
Street of Ronin
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
Jirocho in Disgrace
Temple of Revenge
Jiraiya
Echo in the Mountains
Oda Nobunaga
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
Goblin in Stirrups
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Divorce
Fencing Master
Tattoo of Love
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Victory Song
Last of the Wild Ones
Whirlwind Magistrate
Lady Sen and Hideyori
Irogotoshi harudanji
Grease Paint Serenade
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
The Man Who Came to the Harbor Festival
The Domain: Flower and Dragon
Bull's Eye of Love
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny
Sinking the Unsinkable
The Domain: White Blade
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
One Man's Chivalry
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
Pure-Hearted Unit
Singing Lovebirds
武蔵と小次郎
A Revengeful Raid
Works of the Fish Man
Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
53 Stages of Action
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Writing
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Street of Ronin
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
Bull's Eye of Love
A Revengeful Raid
53 Stages of Action
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