Masahiro Makino
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 29, 1908
- Died
- October 29, 1993 (aged 85)
- Birthplace
- Kyoto, Japan
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Ronin-gai
Movie · Co-Director
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
Movie · Director
The Shin Hasegawa Series
TV · Director · 30 eps
The Path of the King
Movie · Director
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny
Movie · Director
Peonies And Dragons
Movie · Director
Woman Boss
Movie · Director
Born Fighter
Movie · Director
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Movie · Director
Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
Movie · Director
The Domain: Flower and Dragon
Movie · Director
Bad Reputation: Showdown of the Best
Movie · Director
Histories of the Chivalrous
Movie · Director
Rogue
Movie · Director
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
Movie · Director
The Domain: Severed Relations
Movie · Director
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Movie · Director
The Chivalrous Life
Movie · Director
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
Movie · Director
The Domain: White Blade
Movie · Director
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
Movie · Director
The Domain: Duel at Thunder Gate
Movie · Director
Debt of Honor
Movie · Director
Japan's Most Chivalrous
Movie · Director
One Man's Chivalry
Movie · Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
Movie · Director
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Movie · Director
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
Movie · Director
Chocho and Yuji's Marital Goodness
Movie · Director
Irogotoshi harudanji
Movie · Director
The Domain
Movie · Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
Movie · Director
53 Stages of Action
Movie · Director
Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
Movie · Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
Movie · Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
Movie · Director
Tattoo of Love
Movie · Director
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
Movie · Director
Yakuza Official
Movie · Director
Lady Sen and Hideyori
Movie · Director
A Revengeful Raid
Movie · Director
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Movie · Director
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
Movie · Director
Edo Purebreed
Movie · Director
Mask of the Moon
Movie · Director
Works of the Fish Man
Movie · Director
The Man Who Came to the Harbor Festival
Movie · Director
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
Movie · Director
Yakuza of Ina
Movie · Director
Runway to Hell
Movie · Director
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
Movie · Director
Evil Man of Edo
Movie · Director
Goblin in Stirrups
Movie · Director
An Actor's Revenge
Movie · Director
Whirlwind Magistrate
Movie · Director
Echo in the Mountains
Movie · Director
Kanbei's Bargain Sale
Movie · Director
The Traveling Ruffian
Movie · Director
Bull's Eye of Love
Movie · Director
Fighting Disposition
Movie · Director
Fearless Opposition
Movie · Director
Pure-Hearted Unit
Movie · Director
Street of Ronin
Movie · Director
Temple of Revenge
Movie · Director
The Ornery Entrance to the Sumo Ring with a Sword
Movie · Director
Eacape of Fear
Movie · Director
Kin Toyama-san's Detective Story: Man in the Shadows
Movie · Director
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
Movie · Director
Blood Festival of Akagi
Movie · Director
Such is Life
Movie · Director
Jirochô yûkyôden: Akiba no himatsuri
Movie · Director
Last of the Wild Ones
Movie · Director
Jirocho's New Year
Movie · Director
Jirocho in Disgrace
Movie · Director
Daikichi Konomura
Movie · Director
Yakuza bayashi
Movie · Director
My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men
Movie · Director
Utsukushiki taka
Movie · Director
Jirocho's Home-Coming
Movie · Director
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Movie · Director
Her Captive Gamblers
Movie · Director
Jirocho, the Hunted
Movie · Director
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Movie · Director
Night in Hawaii
Movie · Director
The Last Embrace
Movie · Director
Zoku Tange Sazen
Movie · Director
Tange Sazen
Movie · Director
Divorce
Movie · Director
Jirocho Rises in Fame
Movie · Director
武蔵と小次郎
Movie · Director
Suttobi kago
Movie · Director
Grease Paint Serenade
Movie · Director
豪快三人男
Movie · Director
The Killing of Otsuya
Movie · Director
The Official And The Princess of Thieves
Movie · Director
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Movie · Director
A Thousand Standards of Stone
Movie · Director
Fencing Master
Movie · Director
Sugawara denju tenarai kagami
Movie · Director
Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
Movie · Director
Golden Devil
Movie · Director
Golden Devil Part 2
Movie · Director
Ghosts Die at Dawn
Movie · Director
Gate of Flesh
Movie · Director
Waiting Woman
Movie · Director
Iki na fûraibô
Movie · Director
Nonkina tosan
Movie · Director
Victory Song
Movie · Director
Sennichimae fukin
Movie · Director
Sinking the Unsinkable
Movie · Director
Field Army Orchestra
Movie · Director
Miss Hanako
Movie · Director
The Opium War
Movie · Director
Onna keizu
Movie · Director
The Man Who Waited
Movie · Director
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
Movie · Director
Iemitsu and Hikoza
Movie · Director
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Movie · Director
Dancers of Awa
Movie · Director
世紀は笑ふ
Movie · Director
Oda Nobunaga
Movie · Director
Zoku Shimizu Minato
Movie · Director
Singing Lovebirds
Movie · Director
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
Movie · Director
Kurama Tengu
Movie · Director
Chushingura
Movie · Director
honchō kai neko Tsutō
Movie · Director
Jiraiya
Movie · Director
Echo of Love
Movie · Director
Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
Movie · Director
Goronbo-gai
Movie · Director
Kunisada Chūji: Shinshū komoriuta
Movie · Director
Banquet Under the Midnight Sun
Movie · Director
Rônin-gai - Dai-san-wa: Tsukareta hitobito
Movie · Director
Samurai Town Story Part II
Movie · Director
Beheading Place
Movie · Director
The Demon at the Modoribashi Bridge
Movie · Director
Keai-dori
Movie · Director
Samurai Town Story Part I
Movie · Director
Sozenji Baba
Movie · Director
中山安兵衛
Movie · Assistant Director