Yasuzō Masumura
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 25, 1924
- Died
- November 23, 1986 (aged 62)
- Birthplace
- Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan
Biography
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
Lullaby of Death
Movie · Director
The Garden of Eden
Movie · Director
Akai Shisen
TV · Director · 2 eps
Red Storm
TV · Director · 1 ep
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
Movie · Director
The primary colored butterfly was watching - the smell of death
Movie · Director
Lullaby of the Earth
Movie · Director
Akai Shougeki
TV · Director · 29 eps
Main Line to Terror
Movie · Director
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
Movie · Director
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Movie · Director
Music
Movie · Director
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
Movie · Director
Games
Movie · Director
Play It Cool
Movie · Director
The Hot Little Girl
Movie · Director
An Ode to Yakuza
Movie · Director
Blind Beast
Movie · Director
Vixen
Movie · Director
Thousand Cranes
Movie · Director
The Great Villains
Movie · Director
The House of Wooden Blocks
Movie · Director
The Sex Check
Movie · Director
One Day at Summer's End
Movie · Director
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Movie · Director
Love for an Idiot
Movie · Director
Two Wives
Movie · Director
Irezumi
Movie · Director
Red Angel
Movie · Director
The School of Spies
Movie · Director
Seisaku's Wife
Movie · Director
Hoodlum Soldier
Movie · Director
Manji
Movie · Director
Love and Greed
Movie · Director
Fools at Work
Movie · Director
Superexpress
Movie · Director
Black Report
Movie · Director
When Women Lie
Movie · Director
Sentimental Mobsters
Movie · Director
Black Test Car
Movie · Director
A Woman's Life
Movie · Director
Stolen Pleasure
Movie · Director
A Lustful Man
Movie · Director
A Wife Confesses
Movie · Director
The Burdened Sisters
Movie · Director
Love and Life
Movie · Director
Afraid to Die
Movie · Director
The False Student
Movie · Director
A Woman's Testament
Movie · Director
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Movie · Director
The Most Valuable Wife
Movie · Director
The Cast-Off
Movie · Director
Across the Darkness
Movie · Director
Beauty the Enemy
Movie · Director
Giants and Toys
Movie · Director
Disobedience
Movie · Director
The Precipice
Movie · Director
The Lowest Man
Movie · Director
Kisses
Movie · Director
The Blue Sky Maiden
Movie · Director
Warm Current
Movie · Director
The Crowded Train
Movie · Assistant Director
Bridge of Japan
Movie · Assistant Director
Street of Shame
Movie · Assistant Director
Punishment Room
Movie · Assistant Director
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Movie · Assistant Director
Madame Butterfly
Movie · Assistant Director