Yasuzō Masumura
Directing
Born August 25, 1924 · Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan
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.
Directed (58)
Lullaby of Death
1982
The Garden of Eden
1980
The primary colored butterfly was watching - the smell of death
1978
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
1978
Lullaby of the Earth
1976
Main Line to Terror
1975
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
1973
Music
1972
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
1972
Games
1971
The Hot Little Girl
1970
An Ode to Yakuza
1970
Play It Cool
1970
Vixen
1969
Thousand Cranes
1969
Blind Beast
1969
One Day at Summer's End
1968
The House of Wooden Blocks
1968
The Sex Check
1968
The Great Villains
1968
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
Love for an Idiot
1967
Two Wives
1967
Red Angel
1966
The School of Spies
1966
Irezumi
1966
Seisaku's Wife
1965
Hoodlum Soldier
1965
Superexpress
1964
Manji
1964
Love and Greed
1964
Fools at Work
1964
Sentimental Mobsters
1963
When Women Lie
1963
Black Report
1963
A Woman's Life
1962
Black Test Car
1962
Stolen Pleasure
1962
The Burdened Sisters
1961
A Wife Confesses
1961
A Lustful Man
1961
Love and Life
1961
The False Student
1960
The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
Afraid to Die
1960
A Woman's Testament
1960
Across the Darkness
1959
Beauty the Enemy
1959
The Cast-Off
1959
The Most Valuable Wife
1959
Disobedience
1958
The Lowest Man
1958
Giants and Toys
1958
The Precipice
1958
Warm Current
1957
The Blue Sky Maiden
1957
Kisses
1957
