Yasuzō Masumura
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 25, 1924
- Died
- November 23, 1986
- Birthplace
- Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan
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.
Filmography
The Setting Sun 2022
Screenplay
Lullaby of Death 1982
Director, Writer
The Garden of Eden 1980
Director
- The primary colored butterfly was watching - the smell of death
The primary colored butterfly was watching - the smell of death 1978
Director
Double Suicide of Sonezaki 1978
Director, Screenplay
Lullaby of the Earth 1976
Director
Main Line to Terror 1975
Screenplay, Director
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director 1975
as Self
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon 1974
Director
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? 1974
Screenplay
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare 1973
Screenplay, Director
Music 1972
Director, Screenplay
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line 1972
Director, Screenplay
Games 1971
Director
Just for You 1970
Screenplay
The Hot Little Girl 1970
Director, Writer
An Ode to Yakuza 1970
Director
Play It Cool 1970
Director, Screenplay
Vixen 1969
Director, Screenplay
Thousand Cranes 1969
Director
Blind Beast 1969
Director
One Day at Summer's End 1968
Director
The House of Wooden Blocks 1968
Director, Screenplay
The Sex Check 1968
Director
The Great Villains 1968
Director, Screenplay
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka 1967
Director
Love for an Idiot 1967
Director
A Certain Killer 1967
Screenplay
Two Wives 1967
Director
Red Angel 1966
Director
The School of Spies 1966
Director
Irezumi 1966
Director
Seisaku's Wife 1965
Director
Hoodlum Soldier 1965
Director
Superexpress 1964
Director, Screenplay
Manji 1964
Director
Love and Greed 1964
Director
Fools at Work 1964
Director
Sentimental Mobsters 1963
Screenplay, Director
When Women Lie 1963
Director
Black Report 1963
Script, Director
A Woman's Life 1962
Director
Black Test Car 1962
Director
Stolen Pleasure 1962
Director
The Burdened Sisters 1961
Director
A Wife Confesses 1961
Director
A Lustful Man 1961
Director
Love and Life 1961
Director
The False Student 1960
Director
The Woman Who Touched Legs 1960
Director
Afraid to Die 1960
Director
A Woman's Testament 1960
Director
Across the Darkness 1959
Writer, Director
Beauty the Enemy 1959
Director
The Cast-Off 1959
Director
The Most Valuable Wife 1959
Director
Disobedience 1958
Director
The Lowest Man 1958
Director
Giants and Toys 1958
Director
The Precipice 1958
Director
Warm Current 1957
Director
The Blue Sky Maiden 1957
Director
Kisses 1957
Director
The Crowded Train 1957
Assistant Director
Bridge of Japan 1956
Assistant Director
Punishment Room 1956
Assistant Director
Street of Shame 1956
Assistant Director
Princess Yang Kwei-fei 1955
Assistant Director
Madame Butterfly 1954
Assistant Director
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