Yasuzō Masumura
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.
Blind Beast
(Director)
Irezumi
(Director)
Afraid to Die
(Director)
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
(Screenplay)
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
(Screenplay)
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
(Director)
Manji
(Director)
Red Angel
(Director)
A Lustful Man
(Director)
Black Test Car
(Director)
Giants and Toys
(Director)
Music
(Director)
Music
(Writer)
Kisses
(Director)
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
(Director)
Seisaku's Wife
(Director)
The False Student
(Director)
A Wife Confesses
(Director)
Lullaby of the Earth
(Director)
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
(Director)
The Blue Sky Maiden
(Director)
The Most Valuable Wife
(Director)
A Woman's Testament
(Director)
The Cast-Off
(Director)
Love for an Idiot
(Director)
The Hot Little Girl
(Director)
Play It Cool
(Director)
The Hot Little Girl
(Writer)
Warm Current
(Director)
Disobedience
(Director)
Across the Darkness
(Writer)
Across the Darkness
(Director)
Love and Greed
(Director)
The School of Spies
(Director)
The Precipice
(Director)
The Woman Who Touched Legs
(Director)
Games
(Director)
Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka
(Script)
The Burdened Sisters
(Director)
Love and Life
(Director)
A Woman's Life
(Director)
Fools at Work
(Director)
The Great Villains
(Director)
The Great Villains
(Screenplay)
The Garden of Eden
(Director)
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
(Director)
Bridge of Japan
(Assistant Director)
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
(Director)
Hoodlum Soldier
(Director)
Two Wives
(Director)
Vixen
(Director)
The House of Wooden Blocks
(Director)
The House of Wooden Blocks
(Writer)
Stolen Pleasure
(Director)
Play It Cool
(Screenplay)
The Sex Check
(Director)
Black Report
(Script)
Black Report
(Director)
An Ode to Yakuza
(Director)
Lullaby of Death
(Director)
Main Line to Terror
(Screenplay)
Thousand Cranes
(Director)
When Women Lie
(Director)
Lullaby of Death
(Writer)
Horror of the Giant Vortex
(Director)
Main Line to Terror
(Director)
Just for You
(Screenplay)
Sentimental Mobsters
(Screenplay)
Sentimental Mobsters
(Director)
Superexpress
(Director)
The Setting Sun
(Screenplay)
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
(Screenplay)
Street of Shame
(Assistant Director)
Vixen
(Screenplay)
A Certain Killer
(Screenplay)
Beauty the Enemy
(Director)
One Day at Summer's End
(Director)
Superexpress
(Screenplay)
Punishment Room
(Assistant Director)
Princess Yang Kwei Fei
(Assistant Director)
The Lowest Man
(Director)
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
(Screenplay)
原色の蝶は見ていた・死の匂い
(Director)
Madame Butterfly
(Assistant Director)
Akai Arashi
(Director)
Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka
(Writer)
Akai shisen
(Director)
Akai Shougeki
(Director)
シークレット部隊
(Writer)