8.3
8.3
Thousand Cranes
1969
Director
Yasuzō Masumura
Also known as: Yasuzo Masumura, Yasuzou Masumura, Masumura Yasuzō...
Directing
Born:August 25, 1924
Died:November 23, 1986(aged 62)
Birthplace:Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan
Nationality:Japan
Education:University of Tokyo, Experimental Centre of Cinematography
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (64 movies)
8.0
8.0
Superexpress
1964
Director
7.7
7.7
Warm Current
1957
Director
7.6
7.6
Red Angel
1966
Director
7.5
7.5
The Most Valuable Wife
1959
Director
7.3
7.3
Hoodlum Soldier
1965
Director
7.3
7.3
Seisaku's Wife
1965
Director
7.3
7.3
Two Wives
1967
Director
7.1
7.1
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1975
7.0
7.0
When Women Lie
1963
Director
6.9
6.9
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
1972
Screenplay
6.9
6.9
Black Test Car
1962
Director
6.9
6.9
Giants and Toys
1958
Director
6.8
6.8
Irezumi
1966
Director
6.8
6.8
The Blue Sky Maiden
1957
Director
6.8
6.8
Stolen Pleasure
1962
Director
6.8
6.8
An Ode to Yakuza
1970
Director
6.7
6.7
A Certain Killer
1967
Screenplay
6.6
6.6
Kisses
1957
Director
6.5
6.5
A Wife Confesses
1961
Director
6.5
6.5
The False Student
1960
Director
6.5
6.5
The House of Wooden Blocks
1968
Director
6.5
6.5
The School of Spies
1966
Director
6.5
6.5
Love and Greed
1964
Director
6.4
6.4
Blind Beast
1969
Director
6.4
6.4
Vixen
1969
Director
6.3
6.3
Manji
1964
Director
6.2
6.2
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
Director
6.2
6.2
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
1973
Director
6.1
6.1
Lullaby of the Earth
1976
Director
6.1
6.1
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
1978
Screenplay
6.0
6.0
Main Line to Terror
1975
Screenplay
6.0
6.0
The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
Director
6.0
6.0
Games
1971
Director
6.0
6.0
The Setting Sun
2022
Screenplay
6.0
6.0
Afraid to Die
1960
Director
6.0
6.0
The Cast-Off
1959
Director
5.8
5.8
Black Report
1963
Director
5.8
5.8
A Woman's Testament
1960
Director
5.8
5.8
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
1974
Screenplay
5.6
5.6
Love for an Idiot
1967
Director
5.4
5.4
A Lustful Man
1961
Director
5.0
5.0
Lullaby of Death
1982
Director
5.0
5.0
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
Director
4.2
4.2
The Hot Little Girl
1970
Director
4.0
4.0
Play It Cool
1970
Screenplay
4.0
4.0
Music
1972
Writer
3.0
3.0
The Great Villains
1968
Screenplay
3.0
3.0
The Garden of Eden
1980
Director
Sentimental Mobsters
1963
Screenplay
One Day at Summer's End
1968
Director
Beauty the Enemy
1959
Director
The Lowest Man
1958
Director
Disobedience
1958
Director
Across the Darkness
1959
Director
Love and Life
1961
Director
The Burdened Sisters
1961
Director
A Woman's Life
1962
Director
Fools at Work
1964
Director
Horror of the Giant Vortex
1978
Director
The Sex Check
1968
Director
The primary colored butterfly was watching - the smell of death
1978
Director
Just for You
1970
Screenplay
The Precipice
1958
Director
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