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Masahiro Makino
Kyoto, Japan
Masahiro Makino (マキノ 雅弘, Makino Masahiro, February 29, 1908 - October 29, 1993) was a Japanese film director. He directed more than 260 films, primarily in the chanbara and yakuza…
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Masahiro Makino (マキノ 雅弘, Makino Masahiro, February 29, 1908 - October 29, 1993) was a Japanese film director. He directed more than 260 films, primarily in the chanbara and yakuza genres. His real name was Masatada (正唯), but he took the stage name Masahiro, the kanji for which he changed multiple times (including 雅広, 正博, and 雅裕). Masahiro Makino was born in Kyoto, the eldest son of the film director and producer Shōzō Makino, who is often called the father of Japanese cinema. As a youth he acted in over 100 films before debuting as a film director in 1926 at age 18. His critically acclaimed nihilistic jidaigeki such as Roningai (1928) made him one of the top Japanese film directors, but his way of shooting films quickly also earned him detractors. For instance, the total time it took to shoot the 1936 film Edo no Ka Oshō was only 28 hours.The critic Sadao Yamane, however, has argued that this fast filming practice also contributed to Makino's speedy, rhythmic film style. Rhythm and tempo are important to his films, and so in his jidaigeki, fight scenes like in Kettō Takadanobaba (1937) could seem like dances, or entire sequences, like in Awa no Odoriko (1941), could be filled with dance. He made musicals like Singing Lovebirds (1939) and even his wartime propaganda films like Hanako-san and Ahen senso (both 1943) could have Busby Berkeley-like musical numbers. After the war, he helmed such popular jidaigeki series as Jirōchō Sangokushi and such ninkyō eiga series as Nihon Kyōkaku-den. He directed his last film in 1972, the retirement film for Junko Fuji, completing a filmography that totaled over 260 films and included films of many genres.
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1990
Ronin-gai
Movie Co-Director
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1972
The Shin Hasegawa Series
TV show Director
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1972
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
Movie Director
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1971
The Path of the King
Movie Director
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1970
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny
Movie Director
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1970
Born Fighter
Movie Director
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1970
Woman Boss
Movie Screenplay
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1970
Peonies And Dragons
Movie Director
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1969
Bad Reputation: Showdown of the Best
Movie Writer
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1969
Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
Movie Director
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1969
The Domain: Flower and Dragon
Movie Director
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1969
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Movie Director
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1968
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
Movie Director
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1968
Rogue
Movie Director
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1968
Histories of the Chivalrous
Movie Director
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1968
The Domain: Severed Relations
Movie Director
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1967
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
Movie Director
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1967
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Movie Director
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1967
The Chivalrous Life
Movie Director
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1967
The Domain: White Blade
Movie Director
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1966
Debt of Honor
Movie Director
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1966
The Domain: Duel at Thunder Gate
Movie Director
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1966
Japan's Most Chivalrous
Movie Director
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1966
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
Movie Director
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1965
One Man's Chivalry
Movie Director
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1965
The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
Movie Writer
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1965
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Movie Director
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1965
Chocho and Yuji's Marital Goodness
Movie Director
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1965
Irogotoshi harudanji
Movie Director
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1965
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
Movie Director
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1964
The Domain
Movie Director
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1964
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
Movie Writer
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1963
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
Movie Screenplay
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1963
The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
Movie Director
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1963
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
Movie Director
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1963
Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
Movie Director
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1963
Tattoo of Love
Movie Director
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1963
53 Stages of Action
Movie Screenplay
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1962
A Revengeful Raid
Movie Director
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1962
Yakuza Official
Movie Director
