Masahiro Makino
Directing
Born February 29, 1908 · Kyoto, Japan
Masahiro Makino (マキノ 雅弘, Makino Masahiro, February 29, 1908 - October 29, 1993) was a Japanese film director. He directed more than 260 films, primarily in the chanbara and yakuza genres. His real name was Masatada (正唯), but he took the stage name Masahiro, the kanji for which he changed multiple times (including 雅広, 正博, and 雅裕). Masahiro Makino was born in Kyoto, the eldest son of the film director and producer Shōzō Makino, who is often called the father of Japanese cinema. As a youth he acted in over 100 films before debuting as a film director in 1926 at age 18. His critically acclaimed nihilistic jidaigeki such as Roningai (1928) made him one of the top Japanese film directors, but his way of shooting films quickly also earned him detractors. For instance, the total time it took to shoot the 1936 film Edo no Ka Oshō was only 28 hours.The critic Sadao Yamane, however, has argued that this fast filming practice also contributed to Makino's speedy, rhythmic film style. Rhythm and tempo are important to his films, and so in his jidaigeki, fight scenes like in Kettō Takadanobaba (1937) could seem like dances, or entire sequences, like in Awa no Odoriko (1941), could be filled with dance. He made musicals like Singing Lovebirds (1939) and even his wartime propaganda films like Hanako-san and Ahen senso (both 1943) could have Busby Berkeley-like musical numbers. After the war, he helmed such popular jidaigeki series as Jirōchō Sangokushi and such ninkyō eiga series as Nihon Kyōkaku-den. He directed his last film in 1972, the retirement film for Junko Fuji, completing a filmography that totaled over 260 films and included films of many genres.
Directed (129)
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
1972
The Path of the King
1971
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny
1970
Born Fighter
1970
Peonies And Dragons
1970
Woman Boss
1970
Bad Reputation: Showdown of the Best
1969
Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
1969
The Domain: Flower and Dragon
1969
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
1969
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
1968
Rogue
1968
Histories of the Chivalrous
1968
The Domain: Severed Relations
1968
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
1967
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
1967
The Chivalrous Life
1967
The Domain: White Blade
1967
Debt of Honor
1966
The Domain: Duel at Thunder Gate
1966
Japan's Most Chivalrous
1966
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
1966
One Man's Chivalry
1965
The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
1965
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
1965
Chocho and Yuji's Marital Goodness
1965
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
1965
The Domain
1964
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
1964
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
1963
The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
1963
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
1963
Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
1963
Tattoo of Love
1963
53 Stages of Action
1963
A Revengeful Raid
1962
Yakuza Official
1962
Lady Sen and Hideyori
1962
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
1962
Works of the Fish Man
1961
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
1961
Mask of the Moon
1961
Edo Purebreed
1961
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
1960
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
1960
Runway to Hell
1960
Yakuza of Ina
1960
An Actor's Revenge
1959
Evil Man of Edo
1959
Echo in the Mountains
1959
Whirlwind Magistrate
1959
Goblin in Stirrups
1959
Fighting Disposition
1958
Kanbei's Bargain Sale
1958
The Traveling Ruffian
1958
Fearless Opposition
1958
Bull's Eye of Love
1958
Temple of Revenge
1957
Street of Ronin
1957
Pure-Hearted Unit
1957
Eacape of Fear
1956
Such is Life
1955
Blood Festival of Akagi
1955
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
1955
Daikichi Konomura
1954
Jirocho in Disgrace
1954
Yakuza bayashi
1954
Last of the Wild Ones
1954
Jirocho's New Year
1954
Jirocho, the Hunted
1953
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
1953
Zoku Tange Sazen
1953
Jirocho's Home-Coming
1953
Her Captive Gamblers
1953
Tange Sazen
1953
The Last Embrace
1953
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
1953
Night in Hawaii
1953
Jirocho Rises in Fame
1952
武蔵と小次郎
1952
すっ飛び駕
1952
Divorce
1952
豪快三人男
1951
The Killing of Otsuya
1951
The Official And The Princess of Thieves
1951
A Thousand Standards of Stone
1950
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
Fencing Master
1950
Sugawara denju tenarai kagami
1950
Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
1949
Ghosts Die at Dawn
1948
Gate of Flesh
1948
Golden Devil Part 2
1948
Golden Devil
1948
Nonkina tosan
1946
Waiting Woman
1946
Iki na fûraibô
1946
Sennichimae fukin
1945
Victory Song
1945
Yasen gungakutai
1944
Sinking the Unsinkable
1944
Miss Hanako
1943
The Opium War
1943
Onna keizu
1942
The Man Who Waited
1942
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
1941
Dancers of Awa
1941
Iemitsu and Hikoza
1941
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
1941
Zoku Shimizu Minato
1940
Oda Nobunaga
1940
Singing Lovebirds
1939
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
1938
Chushingura
1938
Kurama Tengu
1938
Jiraiya
1937
Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
1937
Echo of Love
1937
honchō kai neko Tsutō
1937
Goronbo-gai
1936
Kunisada Chūji: Shinshū komoriuta
1936
Banquet Under the Midnight Sun
1932
Rônin-gai - Dai-san-wa: Tsukareta hitobito
1929
Beheading Place
1929
The Demon at the Modoribashi Bridge
1929
Samurai Town Story Part II
1929
Sozenji Baba
1928
Samurai Town Story Part I
1928
Keai-dori
1928