Directing
Toshio Masuda
EN, JA cinema · 99 credits
Born
5 October 1927
Died
26 August 2026 (aged 98)
Birthplace
Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
Also known as 舛田利雄
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.
Known for
Filmography
Heavenly Sin
Director
Dohten
Director, Screenplay
Sure Death 5
Director
Company Executives
Director
Tokyo Blackout
Director, Writer
This Story of Love
Director
Love: Starting on a Journey
Screenplay, Director
Odin: Starlight Mutiny
Director, Screenplay
Zero
Director
Battle Anthem
Director
L・O・V・I・N・G
Director
Final Yamato
Screenplay
Highteen Boogie
Director, Writer
Future War 198X
Director
The Last Days of Planet Earth
Screenplay, Adaptation, Director
Be Forever Yamato
Director, Screenplay
Port Arthur
Director
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
Director, Writer
Triton of the Sea
Supervising Producer
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
High Seas Hijack
Screenplay
Human Revolution II
Director
Conflagration
Screenplay
Prophecies of Nostradamus
as Voice, Director, Screenplay, Adaptation
My Blood is the Blood of Others
Director, Screenplay
The Human Revolution
Director
Shadow Hunters
Director
Chase That Man
Director
Law of the Outlaw
Director
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Director
Exiled to Hell
Director, Screenplay
The Fatal Raid
Director, Screenplay
The Cleanup
Director
Outlaw: Gangster VIP
Director
Man of a Stormy Era
Director, Screenplay
Velvet Hustler
Director, Writer
The Man of Victory
Director, Screenplay
The Endless Duel
Director, Screenplay
対決
Director, Screenplay
Challenge for Glory
Director, Screenplay
The Stormy Man
Director
Blood Shed
Director, Screenplay
Taking the Castle
Director, Screenplay
Why Are We Young?
Director, Screenplay
Red Handkerchief
Director, Screenplay
Jinsei Gekijo
Director
Keep Your Chin Up
Director
A City Where Men Live
Director, Screenplay
零戦黒雲一家
Director, Screenplay
Hotbed of Crime
Director, Screenplay
The Day of Youth
Director
Man at the Bullfight
Director, Screenplay
Yakuza Song
Director
The Brawler
Director
A Man Explodes
Director
We Live Today
Director
Get Over Her
Director, Screenplay
Rusty Knife
Director, Writer
The Perfect Game
Director
Red Pier
Director, Writer
The Eagle and the Hawk
Assistant Director
The Champion
Screenplay, Assistant Director
Dancing Sisters
Assistant Director
Evil Reward
Screenplay
The Burmese Harp
Assistant Director
Nikoyon monogatari
Assistant Director
Phoenix
Assistant Director
The Heart
Assistant Director
The Three Faces
Screenplay