Toshio Masuda
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1927-10-05 (98 years old)
Place of Birth
Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
Also known As
舛田利雄
Toshio Masuda
Biography
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...
Acting
1974
as Voice
Production
1970
as Director
1978
as Screenplay
1978
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1977
as Director
1958
as Writer
1958
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1979
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1979
1972
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1972
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1958
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1974
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1967
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1967
as Writer
1980
as Director
1962
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1969
as Director
1969
as Screenplay
1960
as Director
1974
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1974
as Screenplay
1969
as Screenplay
1969
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1963
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1961
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1961
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1966
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1959
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1985
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1980
as Director
1987
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1964
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1987
as Writer
1982
as Writer
1982
as Director
1956
as Screenplay
1969
as Director
1991
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1991
as Director
1968
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1982
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1982
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1968
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1975
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1984
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1983
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1962
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1958
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1972
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1970
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1962
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1992
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1992
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1965
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1977
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1985
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1989
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1985
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1991
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1987
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1962
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1962
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1992
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1972
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1958
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1976
as Director
1991
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1962
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1962
as Screenplay
1957
as Assistant Director
1957
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1961
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1983
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1980
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1979
as Supervising Producer
1955
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1960
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1960
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1956
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1964
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1966
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1966
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1966
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1968
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1968
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1956
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1966
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1957
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1966
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1990
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1965
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1985
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1965
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1973
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1967
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1968
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1967
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1964
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1971
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1959
as Director
1993
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1978
as Original Story
1960
as Screenplay
1983
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1956
as Assistant Director
1965
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1965
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1961
as Director
1981
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1959
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1974
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1981
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1974
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1981
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1967
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1967
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1967
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1967
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1963
as Director
1959
as Director
1959
as Screenplay
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