Toshio Masuda
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.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
(Director)
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
(Director)
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
(Screenplay)
Space Battleship Yamato
(Director)
Rusty Knife
(Director)
Rusty Knife
(Writer)
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
(Director)
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
(Writer)
Shadow Hunters
(Director)
Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
(Director)
The Perfect Game
(Director)
Prophecies of Nostradamus
(Director)
Velvet Hustler
(Writer)
Velvet Hustler
(Director)
Be Forever Yamato
(Director)
Keep Your Chin Up
(Director)
Exiled to Hell
(Director)
Exiled to Hell
(Screenplay)
The Day of Youth
(Director)
My Blood is the Blood of Others
(Screenplay)
My Blood is the Blood of Others
(Director)
The Fatal Raid
(Director)
The Fatal Raid
(Screenplay)
Prince of Wolves
(Director)
Hotbed of Crime
(Director)
Hotbed of Crime
(Screenplay)
Kill the Night Rose
(Director)
A Man Explodes
(Director)
Love: Starting on a Journey
(Screenplay)
Port Arthur
(Director)
Red Handkerchief
(Director)
Tokyo Blackout
(Writer)
Tokyo Blackout
(Director)
Highteen Boogie
(Writer)
Highteen Boogie
(Director)
Evil Reward
(Screenplay)
The Cleanup
(Director)
Dohten
(Director)
Dohten
(Screenplay)
Future War 198X
(Director)
Outlaw: Gangster VIP
(Director)
The Imperial Japanese Empire
(Director)
Monument to the Girl's Corps
(Director)
Conflagration
(Writer)
Zero
(Director)
Battle Anthem
(Director)
Hitoribotchi no futari daga
(Director)
Red Pier
(Director)
Chase That Man
(Director)
Suparuta Kyouiku Kutabare Oyaji
(Director)
Hana to ryu
(Director)
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
(Director)
Heavenly Sin
(Director)
Showdown in the Red Valley
(Director)
High Seas Hijack
(Screenplay)
Love: Starting on a Journey
(Director)
Company Executives
(Director)
Odin: Starlight Mutiny
(Director)
The Great Shogunate Battle
(Director)
This Story of Love
(Director)
Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
(Screenplay)
Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
(Director)
Iemitsu, Hikoza and Isshin Tasuke - A National Crisis: Edo Castle in Danger
(Director)
The Unruly Ronin's Journey II
(Director)
Sword and Flower
(Director)
Red Pier
(Writer)
Human Revolution II
(Director)
Sure Death 5
(Director)
零戦黒雲一家
(Director)
零戦黒雲一家
(Screenplay)
The Eagle and the Hawk
(Assistant Director)
The Champion
(Screenplay)
Kanto Street Peddlers Clan: Violent Loyalty
(Cinematography)
Lost in the Sun
(Director)
L・O・V・I・N・G
(Director)
Be Forever Yamato
(Screenplay)
Triton of the Sea
(Supervising Producer)
The Heart
(Assistant Director)
Man at the Bullfight
(Director)
The Poem of the Blue Star
(Director)
Gesshoku
(Writer)
Red Handkerchief
(Screenplay)
Challenge for Glory
(Director)
Challenge for Glory
(Screenplay)
The Stormy Man
(Director)
Man of a Stormy Era
(Director)
Man of a Stormy Era
(Screenplay)
The Burmese Harp
(Assistant Director)
Blood Shed
(Director)
Dancing Sisters
(Assistant Director)
Blood Shed
(Screenplay)
Minamoto Yoshitsune
(Director)
Taking the Castle
(Director)
Vendetta of Obligation
(Director)
Taking the Castle
(Screenplay)
The Human Revolution
(Director)
Song of my Life
(Director)
The Man of Victory
(Director)
The Man of Victory
(Screenplay)
Jinsei Gekijo
(Director)
Farewell to the Code
(Director)
The Sky Is Mine
(Director)
Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
(Director)
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
(Original Story)
Man at the Bullfight
(Screenplay)
Final Yamato
(Screenplay)
Prophecies of Nostradamus
(Screenplay)
Nikoyon monogatari
(Assistant Director)
Lone Wolf and Cub
(Director)
The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
(Director)
The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
(Writer)
Miyamoto Musashi
(Director)
Father and Son Hawk
(Director)
三国志
(Creator)
The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
(Creator)