Yasuzō Masumura

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1924-08-25

Deathday 1986-11-23 (62 years old)

Place of Birth Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan

Also Known As Yasuzo Masumura, 増村 保造, Masumura Yasuzō, 마스무라 야스조, Ясудзо Масумура, 增村保造, 야스조 마스무라

Yasuzō Masumura

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

Director

1982
Lullaby of Death

as Director

1980
The Garden of Eden

as Director

1980
Akai shisen

as Director

1979
Akai Arashi

as Director

1976
1976
Akai Shougeki

as Director

1975
1974
1972
Music

as Director

1971
Games

as Director

1970
Play It Cool

as Director

1970
1970
An Ode to Yakuza

as Director

1969
Blind Beast

as Director

1969
Vixen

as Director

1969
Thousand Cranes

as Director

1968
The Great Villains

as Director

1968
The Sex Check

as Director

1968
1967
Love for an Idiot

as Director

1967
Two Wives

as Director

1966
Irezumi

as Director

1966
Red Angel

as Director

1966
1965
Seisaku's Wife

as Director

1965
Hoodlum Soldier

as Director

1964
Manji

as Director

1964
Love and Greed

as Director

1964
Fools at Work

as Director

1964
Superexpress

as Director

1963
Black Report

as Director

1963
When Women Lie

as Director

1963
1962
Black Test Car

as Director

1962
A Woman's Life

as Director

1962
Stolen Pleasure

as Director

1961
A Lustful Man

as Director

1961
A Wife Confesses

as Director

1961
1961
Love and Life

as Director

1960
Afraid to Die

as Director

1960
The False Student

as Director

1960
1959
1959
The Cast-Off

as Director

1959
1959
Beauty the Enemy

as Director

1958
Giants and Toys

as Director

1958
Disobedience

as Director

1958
The Precipice

as Director

1958
The Lowest Man

as Director

1957
Kisses

as Director

1957
1957
Warm Current

as Director

1956
Bridge of Japan

as Assistant Director

1956
Street of Shame

as Assistant Director

1956
Punishment Room

as Assistant Director

1955
Princess Yang Kwei Fei

as Assistant Director

Writer

2022
The Setting Sun

as Screenplay

1982
1978
1975
Main Line to Terror

as Screenplay

1973
1972
Music

as Writer

1970
1970
Play It Cool

as Screenplay

1970
Just for You

as Screenplay

1969
Vixen

as Screenplay

1968
The Great Villains

as Screenplay

1967
A Certain Killer

as Screenplay

1964
Superexpress

as Screenplay

1963
Sentimental Mobsters

as Screenplay

1959

Crew

1963
Black Report

as Script