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Toshio Masuda
Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
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 dec…
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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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1997
Fujisawa Shuhei's Sparkling Sword: Puppeteer in the Shadows
Movie Director
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1994
Father and Son Hawk
TV show Director
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1993
Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
Movie Director
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1992
Heavenly Sin
Movie Director
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1992
The Unruly Ronin's Journey II
Movie Director
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1992
三国志
TV show Creator
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1992
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
Movie Director
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1991
Sure Death 5
Movie Director
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1991
The Great Shogunate Battle
Movie Director
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1991
Dohten
Movie Director
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1990
Minamoto Yoshitsune
Movie Director
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1990
Miyamoto Musashi
TV show Director
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1990
The Yagyu Code: Secret Scrolls
Movie Director
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1989
Company Executives
Movie Director
- 1989
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1987
This Story of Love
Movie Director
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1987
Tokyo Blackout
Movie Writer
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1986
Katayoku dake no tenshi
Movie Director
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1985
Vendetta of Obligation
Movie Director
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1985
Odin: Starlight Mutiny
Movie Director
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1985
Love: Starting on a Journey
Movie Screenplay
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1984
Zero
Movie Director
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1983
L・O・V・I・N・G
Movie Director
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1983
Battle Anthem
Movie Director
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1983
Final Yamato
Movie Screenplay
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1982
Future War 198X
Movie Director
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1982
The Imperial Japanese Empire
Movie Director
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1982
Highteen Boogie
Movie Writer
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1981
The Last Days of Planet Earth
Movie Screenplay
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1981
The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
TV show Director
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1980
Port Arthur
Movie Director
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1980
Be Forever Yamato
Movie Director
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1979
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
Movie Director
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1979
Triton of the Sea
Movie Supervising Producer
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1978
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
Movie Director
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1977
High Seas Hijack
Movie Screenplay
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1977
Space Battleship Yamato
Movie Director
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1976
Human Revolution II
Movie Director
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1975
Conflagration
Movie Screenplay
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1974
My Blood is the Blood of Others
Movie Screenplay
