Yasuzō Masumura
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.
Acting (1 movie)
Directing (59 movies)
Blind Beast
1969
Irezumi
1966
Afraid to Die
1960
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
1973
Manji
1964
Red Angel
1966
A Lustful Man
1961
Black Test Car
1962
Giants and Toys
1958
Kisses
1957
Music
1972
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
1978
Seisaku's Wife
1965
The False Student
1960
A Wife Confesses
1961
Lullaby of the Earth
1976
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
The Blue Sky Maiden
1957
The Most Valuable Wife
1959
A Woman's Testament
1960
The Cast-Off
1959
Love for an Idiot
1967
Play It Cool
1970
The Hot Little Girl
1970
Warm Current
1957
Disobedience
1958
Across the Darkness
1959
Games
1971
The Precipice
1958
The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
Love and Greed
1964
The School of Spies
1966
The Burdened Sisters
1961
Love and Life
1961
A Woman's Life
1962
Fools at Work
1964
The Great Villains
1968
The Garden of Eden
1980
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
1972
Hoodlum Soldier
1965
Two Wives
1967
Stolen Pleasure
1962
The House of Wooden Blocks
1968
Vixen
1969
The Sex Check
1968
Black Report
1963
An Ode to Yakuza
1970
Lullaby of Death
1982
Thousand Cranes
1969
When Women Lie
1963
Horror of the Giant Vortex
1978
Main Line to Terror
1975
Sentimental Mobsters
1963
Superexpress
1964
Beauty the Enemy
1959
One Day at Summer's End
1968
The Lowest Man
1958
The primary colored butterfly was watching - the smell of death
1978
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Across the Darkness | 1959 | Writer |
| Sentimental Mobsters | 1963 | Screenplay |
| Superexpress | 1964 | Screenplay |
| A Certain Killer | 1967 | Screenplay |
| The Great Villains | 1968 | Screenplay |
| The House of Wooden Blocks | 1968 | Screenplay |
| Vixen | 1969 | Screenplay |
| Play It Cool | 1970 | Screenplay |
| The Hot Little Girl | 1970 | Writer |
| Just for You | 1970 | Screenplay |
| New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line | 1972 | Screenplay |
| Music | 1972 | Writer |
| Hanzo the Razor: The Snare | 1973 | Screenplay |
| Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? | 1974 | Screenplay |
| Main Line to Terror | 1975 | Screenplay |
| Double Suicide of Sonezaki | 1978 | Screenplay |
| Lullaby of Death | 1982 | Writer |
| The Setting Sun | 2022 | Screenplay |