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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.

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