Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Born: 1911-02-15 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: 1983-07-26
Known For: Directing
Biography
Kimiyoshi Yasuda was a Japanese film director from the 1930s to 1970s. He directed six films about Zatoichi, the Blind Swordsman. He signed with Nikkatsu Kyoto studio as an assistant director and started working as an assistant director under Sadao Yamanaka and Hiroshi Inagaki etc.
Filmography
1979
- Japanese Masterpiece Ghost Story Theatre ... (Screenplay)
- Hanshichi Torimonocho ... (Creator)
- Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Ghost of Kasane Swamp ... (Writer)
1975
- Priest of Darkness ... (Director)
1973
- Mute Samurai ... (Director)
- Zatoichi's Conspiracy ... (Director)
1972
- Kogarashi Monjiro ... (Director)
1971
- Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman ... (Director)
1970
- Ghost of Kasane Swamp ... (Director)
1969
- Lefty Fencer ... (Director)
- Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts ... (Director)
- Sworn Brothers ... (Director)
- Second Generation Young Boss ... (Director)
1968
- Zatoichi and the Fugitives ... (Director)
- Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters ... (Director)
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair ... (Director)
- Sequel: Secret Report From A Women's Prison ... (Director)
1967
- Zatoichi's Cane Sword ... (Director)
- The Hoodlum Priest ... (Director)
- Tokyo Gambler ... (Director)
- Bad Reputation: The Notorious Man of Legend ... (Director)
1965
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan ... (Director)
- New Tengu from Mount Kurama ... (Director)
1964
- Adventures of Zatoichi ... (Director)
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing ... (Director)
1963
- Zatoichi on the Road ... (Director)
1962
- Kumoemon to sono tsuma ... (Director)
- Ame no Kudan-zaka ... (Director)
1960
- お嬢さん三度笠 ... (Director)
- Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane ... (Director)
1958
- Megitsune Buro ... (Director)
- Hana no yukyo-den ... (Director)
- Hanatarō Jumon ... (Director)
1957
- Fighting Letter for 29 People ... (Director)
- Akado Suzunosuke and the Vacuum Slash of the Asuka School ... (Director)
- Akado Suzunosuke vs. the One-Legged Devil ... (Director)
- Akado Suzunosuke Destroys the Devil Mask Gang ... (Director)
1956
- Ninjutsu senshuken jiai ... (Director)
- Ninjutsu musha shūgyō ... (Director)
- The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane ... (Director)
- The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane Continued ... (Director)
- Haha shirayuki ... (Director)
- Tsukiyo no aho dori ... (Director)
- Shin Shokoku Monogatari: Otena no To Part 2 ... (Director)
- Shirai Gonpachi ... (Director)
1955
- The Dancer and Two Warriors ... (Director)
- Shin Shokoku Monogatari: Otena no To Part 1 ... (Director)
- The Young Lord ... (Director)
1954
- Date sōdō: Haha goten ... (Director)
- Kai nusumadara kumo ... (Director)
- The Young Swordsman ... (Director)
- 関八州勢揃い ... (Director)
- Maiko monogatari ... (Director)
1953
- Haha no hitomi ... (Director)
- Zoku suna-e jubaku: Yukijorō ... (Director)
- Suna-e jubaku ... (Director)
- Hiren tsubaki ... (Director)
1952
- Furisode kyōjo ... (Director)
- Sado Island Elegy ... (Director)
1951
- Jōen no hatoba ... (Director)
- Izayoi kaidō ... (Director)
- The Red Key ... (Director)
1950
- Komusō yashiki ... (Director)
- Pirate Island ... (Director)
- Condor ... (Director)
- Tetsuro no dankon ... (Director)
1949
- Haha koiboshi ... (Director)
- The Elephant Who Waited ... (Director)
- The Man Who Laughs Last ... (Director)
1948
- That Night's Adventure ... (Director)
1944
- Ouma wa nanajū nanaman seki ... (Director)
1942
- Miyamoto musashi Ichijōji kettō ... (Assistant Director)
1939
- Shunjû ittôryû ... (Assistant Director)