Masahiro Makino
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.
Histories of the Chivalrous
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53 Stages of Action
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53 Stages of Action
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
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Keai-dori
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Rônin-gai - Dai-san-wa: Tsukareta hitobito
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Goronbo-gai
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Waiting Woman
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Singing Lovebirds
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Jirocho's Home-Coming
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Bad Reputation: Showdown of the Best
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Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
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Evil Man of Edo
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Samurai Town Story Part II
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny
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Yakuza Official
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Yakuza Official
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Divorce
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honchō kai neko Tsutō
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Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
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Kurama Tengu
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Oda Nobunaga
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Ronin-gai
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Jirocho Rises in Fame
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Lady Sen and Hideyori
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Jiraiya
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Peonies And Dragons
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Goblin in Stirrups
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
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Miss Hanako
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武蔵と小次郎
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One Man's Chivalry
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Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
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The Traveling Ruffian
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Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
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Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
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Samurai Town Story Part I
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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
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Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
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Sozenji Baba
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Rogue
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Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
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The Domain
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
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Onna keizu
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Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
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Jirocho, the Hunted
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Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
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Her Captive Gamblers
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Jirocho's New Year
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Jirocho in Disgrace
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Last of the Wild Ones
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
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Yakuza of Ina
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A Thousand Standards of Stone
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The Path of the King
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Bull's Eye of Love
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Blood Festival of Akagi
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Such is Life
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Such is Life
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Fencing Master
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Pure-Hearted Unit
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri
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Sinking the Unsinkable
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A Revengeful Raid
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Echo of Love
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
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An Actor's Revenge
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The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
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Runway to Hell
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豪快三人男
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Victory Song
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Kanbei's Bargain Sale
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Golden Devil
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Golden Devil Part 2
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Magistrate Toyama 3: The Whirlwind Magistrate
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Edo Purebreed
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Street of Ronin
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Street of Ronin
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The Traveling Ruffian
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Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
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Zoku Shimizu Minato
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Iemitsu and Hikoza
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The Man Who Waited
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Night in Hawaii
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Mask of the Moon
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Bull's Eye of Love
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Echo in the Mountains
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The Last Embrace
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The Chivalrous Life
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Sennichimae fukin
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Victory Song
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Sugawara denju tenarai kagami
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Daikichi Konomura
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Daikichi Konomura
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Kunisada Chūji: Shinshū komoriuta
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Kunisada Chūji: Shinshū komoriuta
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The Domain: Flower and Dragon
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Beheading Place
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Banquet Under the Midnight Sun
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Ghosts Die at Dawn
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Tattoo of Love
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Iki na fûraibô
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Iki na fûraibô
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Nonkina tosan
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Yakuza bayashi
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Yakuza bayashi
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Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
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Woman Boss
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Woman Boss
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The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
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Fighting Disposition
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Chushingura
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Born Fighter
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Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
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A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
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Gate of Flesh
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
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Yakuza of Ina
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The Killing of Otsuya
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The Sword
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Bad Reputation: Showdown of the Best
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A Revengeful Raid
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Dancers of Awa
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The Opium War
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Dancers of Awa
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The Domain: The Naniwa Story
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The Domain: Duel at Thunder Gate
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The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
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The Domain: White Blade
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The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
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The Domain: Severed Relations
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Debt of Honor
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Works of the Fish Man
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The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
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Temple of Revenge
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Japan's Most Chivalrous
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The Official And The Princess of Thieves
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Fearless Opposition
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中山安兵衛
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The Shin Hasegawa Series
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