Yasuzō Masumura
Directing
Born: August 25, 1924 · Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan
Died: November 23, 1986 (aged 62)
Biography
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
Street of Shame
1956
Blind Beast
1969
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
Red Angel
1966
Irezumi
1966
Manji
1964
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
1973
Giants and Toys
1958
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
1974
A Wife Confesses
1961
Black Test Car
1962
Seisaku's Wife
1965
Photos (2)
Self / Appearances (1)
Directing (66)
One Day at Summer's End
Director
Thousand Cranes
Director
Akai Shougeki
Director
Irezumi
Director
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Assistant Director
Red Angel
Director
The Lowest Man
Director
Street of Shame
Assistant Director
Vixen
Director
Lullaby of the Earth
Director
A Lustful Man
Director
Blind Beast
Director
Love for an Idiot
Director
The Garden of Eden
Director
Manji
Director
A Woman's Testament
Director
Two Wives
Director
A Wife Confesses
Director
The Blue Sky Maiden
Director
The Most Valuable Wife
Director
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Director
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Director
Akai Shisen
Director
Giants and Toys
Director
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Director
Warm Current
Director
Love and Greed
Director
Black Report
Director
An Ode to Yakuza
Director
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
Director
The Crowded Train
Assistant Director
Hoodlum Soldier
Director
The House of Wooden Blocks
Director
Madame Butterfly
Assistant Director
Sentimental Mobsters
Director
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
Director
Beauty the Enemy
Director
When Women Lie
Director
The School of Spies
Director
Main Line to Terror
Director
Punishment Room
Assistant Director
Black Test Car
Director
Bridge of Japan
Assistant Director
The Hot Little Girl
Director
Music
Director
Games
Director
Stolen Pleasure
Director
Superexpress
Director
Afraid to Die
Director
Red Storm
Director
Play It Cool
Director
Seisaku's Wife
Director
The False Student
Director
Lullaby of Death
Director
The Sex Check
Director
The Great Villains
Director
The Cast-Off
Director
A Woman's Life
Director
Disobedience
Director
The Precipice
Director
Kisses
Director
Love and Life
Director
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
Director
Fools at Work
Director
Across the Darkness
Director
The Burdened Sisters
Director
Writing (20)
シークレット部隊
Writer
Vixen
Screenplay
The Setting Sun
Screenplay
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
Screenplay
Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka
Writer
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Screenplay
A Certain Killer
Screenplay
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
Screenplay
The House of Wooden Blocks
Screenplay
Sentimental Mobsters
Screenplay
Main Line to Terror
Screenplay
The Hot Little Girl
Writer
Music
Screenplay
Superexpress
Screenplay
Play It Cool
Screenplay
Lullaby of Death
Writer
The Great Villains
Screenplay
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
Screenplay
Across the Darkness
Writer
Just for You
Screenplay
