Toshio Masuda
Directing
Born October 5, 1927 · Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
Toshio Masuda (born October 5, 1927 in Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan) is a Japanese film director. He developed a reputation as a consistent box office hit-maker. Over the course of five decades, 16 of his films made the yearly top ten lists at the Japanese box office—a second place record in the industry. Between 1958 and 1968 he directed 52 films for the Nikkatsu Company. He was their top director of action films and worked with the company's top stars, including Yujiro Ishihara with whom he made 25 films. After the breakdown of the studio system, he moved on to a succession of big-budget movies including the American-Japanese co-production Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and the science fiction epic Catastrophe 1999: The Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974). He worked on such anime productions as the Space Battleship Yamato series. His corporate drama Company Funeral (1989) earned him a Japanese Academy Award nomination and wins at the Blue Ribbon Awards and Mainichi Film Awards. In Japan, his films are well remembered by fans and called genre landmarks by critics. He remains little known abroad save for rare exceptions of his post-Nikkatsu work such as Tora! Tora! Tora!. However, a number of his films were screened in a 2005 Nikkatsu Action Cinema retrospective in Italy and a few have since made their way to the United States. At the age of 81, he is currently prepping to helm Uchū Senkan Yamato: Fukkatsu hen (2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article Toshio Masuda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
1993
Heavenly Sin
1992
The Unruly Ronin's Journey II
1992
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
1992
Sure Death 5
1991
The Great Shogunate Battle
1991
Dohten
1991
Minamoto Yoshitsune
1990
The Yagyu Code: Secret Scrolls
1990
Company Executives
1989
Iemitsu, Hikoza and Isshin Tasuke - A National Crisis: Edo Castle in Danger
1989
This Story of Love
1987
Tokyo Blackout
1987
Katayoku dake no tenshi
1986
Vendetta of Obligation
1985
Odin: Starlight Mutiny
1985
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
Zero
1984
L・O・V・I・N・G
1983
Battle Anthem
1983
Future War 198X
1982
Highteen Boogie
1982
The Imperial Japanese Empire
1982
The Last Days of Planet Earth
1981
Port Arthur
1980
Be Forever Yamato
1980
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
1979
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
1978
Space Battleship Yamato
1977
Human Revolution II
1976
My Blood is the Blood of Others
1974
Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974
The Human Revolution
1973
Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
1972
Shadow Hunters
1972
Sword and Flower
1972
Chase That Man
1972
Law of the Outlaw
1971
Challenge at Dawn
1971
Spartan Education
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
The Cleanup
1969
The Fatal Raid
1969
Exiled to Hell
1969
Monument to the Girl's Corps
1968
Man of a Stormy Era
1968
Song of my Life
1968
Outlaw: Gangster VIP
1968
The Endless Duel
1967
Velvet Hustler
1967
対決
1967
The Man of Victory
1967
Challenge for Glory
1966
The Stormy Man
1966
Kill the Night Rose
1966
Blood Shed
1966
Showdown in the Red Valley
1965
Why Are We Young?
1965
Taking the Castle
1965
Jinsei Gekijo
1964
Red Handkerchief
1964
Prince of Wolves
1963
Escape into Terror
1963
A Man With Dragon Tattoos
1962
Hitoribotchi no futari daga
1962
零戦黒雲一家
1962
Keep Your Chin Up
1962
Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
1962
Quiet Man of the Underworld
1961
Lost in the Sun
1961
Where the Horizon Meets the Sun
1961
Hotbed of Crime
1961
Man at the Bullfight
1960
The Day of Youth
1960
The Poem of the Blue Star
1960
The Sky Is Mine
1959
A Man Explodes
1959
We Live Today
1959
Get Over Her
1959
The Perfect Game
1958
Red Pier
1958
Rusty Knife
1958