Directing
Yasuzō Masumura
JA, IT cinema · 69 credits
Born
25 August 1924
Died
23 November 1986 (aged 62)
Birthplace
Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan
Also known as Yasuzo Masumura · 増村 保造 · Masumura Yasuzō · 마스무라 야스조 · Ясудзо Масумура · 增村保造
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.
Known for
Filmography
The Setting Sun
Screenplay
Lullaby of Death
Director, Writer
The Garden of Eden
Director
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
Director, Screenplay
原色の蝶は見ていた・死の匂い
1978
The primary colored butterfly was watching - the smell of death
Director
Lullaby of the Earth
Director
Main Line to Terror
Screenplay, Director
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Director, Screenplay
Music
Director, Screenplay
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
Director, Screenplay
Games
Director
Play It Cool
Director, Screenplay
The Hot Little Girl
Director, Writer
An Ode to Yakuza
Director
Just for You
Screenplay
Blind Beast
Director
Vixen
Director, Screenplay
Thousand Cranes
Director
The Great Villains
Screenplay, Director
The House of Wooden Blocks
Director, Screenplay
The Sex Check
Director
Love for an Idiot
Director
Two Wives
Director
A Certain Killer
Screenplay
Irezumi
Director
Red Angel
Director
The School of Spies
Director
Seisaku's Wife
Director
Hoodlum Soldier
Director
Manji
Director
Love and Greed
Director
Fools at Work
Director
Superexpress
Director, Screenplay
Black Report
Script, Director
When Women Lie
Director
Sentimental Mobsters
Director, Screenplay
Black Test Car
Director
A Woman's Life
Director
Stolen Pleasure
Director
A Lustful Man
Director
A Wife Confesses
Director
Love and Life
Director
Afraid to Die
Director
The False Student
Director
A Woman's Testament
Director
The Cast-Off
Director
Across the Darkness
Director, Writer
Beauty the Enemy
Director
Giants and Toys
Director
Disobedience
Director
The Precipice
Director
The Lowest Man
Director
Kisses
Director
The Blue Sky Maiden
Director
Warm Current
Director
The Crowded Train
Assistant Director
Bridge of Japan
Assistant Director
Street of Shame
Assistant Director
Punishment Room
Assistant Director
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Assistant Director
Madame Butterfly
Assistant Director