Yasuzō Masumura
Born: 1924-08-25 in Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan
Died: 1986-11-23
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2022
- The Setting Sun ... (Screenplay)
1985
- Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka ... (Writer)
- Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka ... (Script)
1982
- Lullaby of Death ... (Director)
1980
- Akai Shisen ... (Director)
- The Garden of Eden ... (Director)
1979
- Red Storm ... (Director)
1978
- The primary colored butterfly was watching - the smell of death ... (Director)
- Double Suicide of Sonezaki ... (Director)
1976
- Akai Shougeki ... (Director)
- Lullaby of the Earth ... (Director)
1975
- Main Line to Terror ... (Screenplay)
- Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director as Self
1974
- Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? ... (Screenplay)
- Akumyo: Notorious Dragon ... (Director)
1973
- Hanzo the Razor: The Snare ... (Director)
1972
- シークレット部隊 ... (Writer)
- New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line ... (Director)
- Music ... (Director)
1971
- Games ... (Director)
1970
- The Hot Little Girl ... (Director)
- Play It Cool ... (Director)
- An Ode to Yakuza ... (Director)
- Just for You ... (Screenplay)
1969
- Blind Beast ... (Director)
- Vixen ... (Director)
- Thousand Cranes ... (Director)
1968
- The Sex Check ... (Director)
- The House of Wooden Blocks ... (Director)
- One Day at Summer's End ... (Director)
- The Great Villains ... (Director)
1967
- Love for an Idiot ... (Director)
- Two Wives ... (Director)
- A Certain Killer ... (Screenplay)
- The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka ... (Director)
1966
- Irezumi ... (Director)
- Red Angel ... (Director)
- The School of Spies ... (Director)
1965
- Hoodlum Soldier ... (Director)
- Seisaku's Wife ... (Director)
1964
- Manji ... (Director)
- Superexpress ... (Director)
- Love and Greed ... (Director)
- Fools at Work ... (Director)
1963
- Black Report ... (Script)
- When Women Lie ... (Director)
- Sentimental Mobsters ... (Director)
1962
- Stolen Pleasure ... (Director)
- Black Test Car ... (Director)
- A Woman's Life ... (Director)
1961
- A Wife Confesses ... (Director)
- A Lustful Man ... (Director)
- Love and Life ... (Director)
- The Burdened Sisters ... (Director)
1960
- Afraid to Die ... (Director)
- A Woman's Testament ... (Director)
- The False Student ... (Director)
- The Woman Who Touched Legs ... (Director)
1959
- The Most Valuable Wife ... (Director)
- Beauty the Enemy ... (Director)
- The Cast-Off ... (Director)
- Across the Darkness ... (Director)
1958
- Giants and Toys ... (Director)
- The Precipice ... (Director)
- Disobedience ... (Director)
- The Lowest Man ... (Director)
1957
- The Blue Sky Maiden ... (Director)
- Warm Current ... (Director)
- Kisses ... (Director)
1956
- Street of Shame ... (Assistant Director)
- Bridge of Japan ... (Assistant Director)
- Punishment Room ... (Assistant Director)
1955
- Princess Yang Kwei-fei ... (Assistant Director)
1954
- Madame Butterfly ... (Assistant Director)