Yasuzō Masumura

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-08-25 (62 years old)

Deathday

1986-11-23

Place of Birth

Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan

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, ...

Production

1969

Blind Beast

as Director

1966

Irezumi

as Director

1960

Afraid to Die

as Director

1964

Manji

as Director

1966

Red Angel

as Director

1961

A Lustful Man

as Director

1962

Black Test Car

as Director

1958

Giants and Toys

as Director

1972

Music

as Director

1972

Music

as Writer

1957

Kisses

as Director

1965

Seisaku's Wife

as Director

1960

1961

A Wife Confesses

as Director

1976

1957

1959

1960

1959

The Cast-Off

as Director

1967

1970

1970

Play It Cool

as Director

1970

1957

Warm Current

as Director

1958

Disobedience

as Director

1959

1959

1964

Love and Greed

as Director

1966

1958

The Precipice

as Director

1971

Games

as Director

1961

1961

Love and Life

as Director

1962

A Woman's Life

as Director

1964

Fools at Work

as Director

1968

1968

The Great Villains

as Screenplay

1980

1956

Bridge of Japan

as Assistant Director

1965

Hoodlum Soldier

as Director

1967

Two Wives

as Director

1969

Vixen

as Director

1962

Stolen Pleasure

as Director

1970

Play It Cool

as Screenplay

1968

The Sex Check

as Director

1963

Black Report

as Script

1963

Black Report

as Director

1970

An Ode to Yakuza

as Director

1982

Lullaby of Death

as Director

1975

Main Line to Terror

as Screenplay

1969

Thousand Cranes

as Director

1963

When Women Lie

as Director

1982

1975

1970

Just for You

as Screenplay

1963

1963

1964

Superexpress

as Director

2022

The Setting Sun

as Screenplay

1956

Street of Shame

as Assistant Director

1969

Vixen

as Screenplay

1967

A Certain Killer

as Screenplay

1959

Beauty the Enemy

as Director

1964

Superexpress

as Screenplay

1956

Punishment Room

as Assistant Director

1955

Princess Yang Kwei-fei

as Assistant Director

1958

The Lowest Man

as Director

1954

Madame Butterfly

as Assistant Director

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