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Yasuzō Masumura
Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan
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…
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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.
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2022
The Setting Sun
Movie Screenplay
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1985
Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka
TV show Writer
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1985
Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka
Movie Script
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1982
Lullaby of Death
Movie Director
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1980
The Garden of Eden
Movie Director
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1980
Akai Shisen
TV show Director
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1979
Red Storm
TV show Director
- 1978
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1978
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
Movie Director
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1976
Akai Shougeki
TV show Director
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1976
Lullaby of the Earth
Movie Director
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1975
Main Line to Terror
Movie Screenplay
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1975
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Movie Self
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1974
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
Movie Director
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1974
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
Movie Screenplay
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1973
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Movie Director
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1972
Music
Movie Director
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1972
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
Movie Director
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1972
シークレット部隊
TV show Writer
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1971
Games
Movie Director
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1970
Just for You
Movie Screenplay
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1970
The Hot Little Girl
Movie Director
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1970
An Ode to Yakuza
Movie Director
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1970
Play It Cool
Movie Director
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1969
Vixen
Movie Director
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1969
Thousand Cranes
Movie Director
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1969
Blind Beast
Movie Director
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1968
One Day at Summer's End
Movie Director
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1968
The House of Wooden Blocks
Movie Director
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1968
The Sex Check
Movie Director
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1968
The Great Villains
Movie Screenplay
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1967
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Movie Director
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1967
Love for an Idiot
Movie Director
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1967
A Certain Killer
Movie Screenplay
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1967
Two Wives
Movie Director
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1966
Red Angel
Movie Director
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1966
The School of Spies
Movie Director
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1966
Irezumi
Movie Director
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1965
Seisaku's Wife
Movie Director
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1965
Hoodlum Soldier
Movie Director
