Toshio Masuda
Directing
Born: October 5, 1927 (age 98) · Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
Highest Rated
Biography
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.
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Directing (94)
Lone Wolf and Cub
Director
Tora! Tora! Tora!
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The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
Director
Sure Death 5
Director
Future War 198X
Director
The Burmese Harp
Assistant Director
Space Battleship Yamato
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The Imperial Japanese Empire
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Father and Son Hawk
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Port Arthur
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Miyamoto Musashi
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Prophecies of Nostradamus
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Be Forever Yamato
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Odin: Starlight Mutiny
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Zero
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Love: Starting on a Journey
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Outlaw: Gangster VIP
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Heavenly Sin
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Jinsei Gekijo
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Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
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Exiled to Hell
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The Great Shogunate Battle
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The Last Days of Planet Earth
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The Day of Youth
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Sword and Flower
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Tokyo Blackout
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Company Executives
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Battle Anthem
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Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
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Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
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Blood Shed
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Spartan Education
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Keep Your Chin Up
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Taking the Castle
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The Heart
Assistant Director
Minamoto Yoshitsune
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The Endless Duel
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Highteen Boogie
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My Blood is the Blood of Others
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The Perfect Game
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Velvet Hustler
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Human Revolution II
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Red Handkerchief
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Dancing Sisters
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Monument to the Girl's Corps
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Challenge at Dawn
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Chase That Man
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Rusty Knife
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Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
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Vendetta of Obligation
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Prince of Wolves
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The Champion
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The Brawler
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Law of the Outlaw
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The Stormy Man
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Kill the Night Rose
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Get Over Her
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The Eagle and the Hawk
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Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
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Why Are We Young?
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零戦黒雲一家
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L・O・V・I・N・G
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Song of my Life
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This Story of Love
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Where the Horizon Meets the Sun
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Dohten
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The Man of Victory
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Iemitsu, Hikoza and Isshin Tasuke - A National Crisis: Edo Castle in Danger
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The Human Revolution
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Yakuza Song
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Shadow Hunters
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The Fatal Raid
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Lost in the Sun
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対決
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A Man with Dragon Tattoos
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Nikoyon monogatari
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Man at the Bullfight
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Red Pier
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Challenge for Glory
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Showdown in the Red Valley
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Katayoku dake no tenshi
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Eliminate The Killer
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The Cleanup
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Phoenix
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A Man Explodes
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Hotbed of Crime
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Escape into Terror
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Man of a Stormy Era
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The Sky Is Mine
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We Live Today
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Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
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Two People, Yet All Alone
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The Yagyu Code: Secret Scrolls
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Quiet Man of the Underworld
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Writing (39)
The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
Writer
Final Yamato
Screenplay
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Screenplay
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Adaptation
High Seas Hijack
Screenplay
Be Forever Yamato
Screenplay
Conflagration
Screenplay
Love: Starting on a Journey
Screenplay
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
Writer
Exiled to Hell
Screenplay
The Last Days of Planet Earth
Screenplay
The Last Days of Planet Earth
Adaptation
Tokyo Blackout
Writer
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
Screenplay
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
Original Story
Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
Screenplay
Blood Shed
Screenplay
Taking the Castle
Screenplay
The Endless Duel
Screenplay
Highteen Boogie
Writer
My Blood is the Blood of Others
Screenplay
Velvet Hustler
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Red Handkerchief
Screenplay
Rusty Knife
Writer
Lunar Eclipse
Writer
The Champion
Screenplay
Get Over Her
Screenplay
Why Are We Young?
Screenplay
零戦黒雲一家
Screenplay
Dohten
Screenplay
The Man of Victory
Screenplay
The Fatal Raid
Screenplay
対決
Screenplay
Man at the Bullfight
Screenplay
Red Pier
Writer
Challenge for Glory
Screenplay
Hotbed of Crime
Screenplay
Man of a Stormy Era
Screenplay
Evil Reward
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