Akinori Matsuo
Born: 1928-11-05 in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Died: 2010-07-12
Known For: Directing
Biography
Akinori Matsuo was born on November 5, 1928 in Japan. Akinori was a director and assistant director, known for Yakuza sensei (1960), Meiji keppûroku: Taka to ôkami (1968) and Tekka no hanamichi (1968). Akinori died on July 12, 2010. Originally named Matsuo Akinori, Ma was one of the Japanese directors who was hired by Shaw Brothers, and soon started the genre of Hong Kong films with a Japanese touch. Together with Inoue Umetsugu and Koh Nakahira (stage-named Yang Shu-Shin), they directed films like "Operation Lipstick" (directed by Inoue), "Interpol" (directed by Nakahira) and "Asia-Pol" (directed by Akinori).
Filmography
1998
- Shadow Warrior Tokugawa Ieyasu ... (Director)
1997
- Tattooed Kin-san vs Miss Ninja Thief ... (Director)
1993
- Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death ... (Director)
- The Notorious Bored Samurai 8 ... (Director)
- Bored Hatamoto: The Kaga Conspiracy ... (Screenplay)
1992
- The Notorious Bored Samurai 7 ... (Director)
1991
- The Notorious Bored Samurai 6 ... (Director)
- Kazu no Fūkei ... (Director)
1990
- The Notorious Bored Samurai 4 ... (Director)
- Miyamoto Musashi ... (Director)
1989
- The Notorious Bored Samurai 3 ... (Director)
1988
- The Notorious Bored Samurai ... (Director)
- The Notorious Bored Samurai 2 ... (Director)
1987
- The Retired Samurai ... (Director)
- Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu ... (Director)
1986
- Tokugawa Chronicles: Ambition of the 3 Branches ... (Director)
1984
- The Fugitive Samurai ... (Director)
1983
- Masked Blade ... (Director)
1982
- Ninja Gangsters 2: The Lullaby of Hell ... (Director)
- The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn ... (Director)
1980
- Shadow Warriors ... (Director)
1979
- Onmitsu Doshin: The Edo Secret Police ... (Director)
1978
- The Okinawa War of Ten Years ... (Director)
1977
- Gambling Code and Feuds ... (Director)
- Special Crime Investigation Front ... (Director)
1971
- The Lady Professional ... (Director)
- Chivalrous Man: Junkyard of Life ... (Director)
1970
- Greatest Boss Of Japan ... (Director)
1969
- Family Crest: Loyalty Offering Hell ... (Director)
- Penitentiary Brothers ... (Director)
- Family Crest: Die Like a Man ... (Director)
1968
- I Shall Not Forget ... (Director)
- Duel in the Storm ... (Director)
- Dice and Swords ... (Director)
- Three Rogues ... (Director)
1967
- The Reckless One ... (Director)
- Asia-Pol ... (Director)
1966
- Watashi, chigatteiru kashira ... (Director)
- Love and Desire in the Night Mist ... (Director)
- Asiapol Secret Service ... (Director)
- A World For Two ... (Director)
- The Dragon and the Tiger ... (Director)
1965
- In Tears ... (Director)
- Shinkuna umi ga yon deru ze ... (Director)
1964
- Kaze to Ki to Sora to ... (Director)
- Sunset Hill ... (Director)
- The Eternal Life ... (Director)
1963
- The Symbol of a Man ... (Director)
- Fight of the Gamblers ... (Director)
- Tale on Kanto Chivalry ... (Director)
- The Dragon Crest ... (Director)
- Badge of the Night ... (Director)
1962
- The Man From the Sea ... (Director)
- Ningen Gari ... (Director)
- Utau abarenbō ... (Director)
- Rainbow Over Kinmon ... (Director)
- Angel and the Outlaw ... (Director)
- Yume ga ippai abarenbō ... (Director)
- The President's Son ... (Director)
1961
- Good-for-nothing Guy ... (Director)
- For This We Fight ... (Director)
- Nosappu no jū ... (Director)
- Pacific Porters ... (Director)
- Shichinin no chōsensha ... (Director)
- Zurari oretacha yōjinbō ... (Director)
1960
- The Lost Diamond ... (Director)
- Knock Down ... (Director)
1959
- Wakai hyou no mure ... (Director)
- I Will Challenge ... (Screenplay)
- When a Man Risks His Life ... (Screenplay)
- The Wild Reporter ... (Director)
- Yuganda tsuki ... (Director)
- Abashiri Prison ... (Director)
1958
- Crimson Wings ... (Screenplay)
1957
- I Am Waiting ... (Assistant Director)
- Who's the Real Killer ... (Assistant Director)
- Streetlights ... (Assistant Director)
1956
- Frankie the Milkman ... (Assistant Director)
- Our Town ... (First Assistant Director)