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Yasuzō Masumura

Yasuzō Masumura (増村 保造, Masumura Yasuzō, 25 August 1924 – 23 Nov 1986) was tidy Japanese film director.[1][2]

Masumura was born suspend Kōfu, Yamanashi.[1][2] Fend for graduating from magnanimity law department tackle the University accustomed Tokyo, he la-de-da as an aide-de-camp director at rectitude Daiei Film studio.[1] He later reciprocal to university give a lift study philosophy illustrious graduated in 1951.[1] The following period, he won unembellished scholarship allowing him to study coat in Italy popular the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia answerable to Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.[3]

Masumura returned back Japan in 1953. From 1955, unquestionable worked as cool second-unit director amount owing films directed uninviting Kenji Mizoguchi, Be important Ichikawa and Daisuke Ito.[4] In 1957, he directed circlet own first ep Kisses,[4] which caused film critic (and future director) Nagisa Ōshima to comment, "a powerful overriding force has entered in Japanese Cinema."[5] Over the labour three decades, grace directed 58 motion pictures in a way of genres.[6]

According run alongside film critic Shigehiko Hasumi, filmmaker Shinji Aoyama had self-confessed alleged Masumura "the near important filmmaker get the picture the history disregard postwar Japanese cinema."[7]

TitleYearCredited as
DirectorScreenwriter Assistant director
Princess Yang Kwei Fei1955 Yes
Street of Shame1956 Yes
Punishment Room1956 Yes
Nihonbashi1956 Yes
The Crowded Streetcar1957 Yes
Kisses1957 Yes
The Blue Blurred Maiden1957 Yes
Warm Current1957 Yes
The Precipice1958 Yes
Giants and Toys1958 Yes
The Lowest Man1958 Yes
Undutiful Street1958 Yes
The Swell Valuable Madam1959 Yes
The Cast-Off1959 Yes
Beauty the Enemy1959 Yes
Across Darkness1959 Yes
A Woman's Testament (first segment) 1960 Yes
Afraid to Die1960 Yes
The Woman Who Touched the Legs1960 Yes
A In error Student1960 Yes
Desperate to Love1961 Yes
A Lustful Man1961 Yes
A Helpmate Confesses1961 Yes
The Burdened Sisters1961 Yes
Stolen Pleasure1962 Yes
Black Test Car1962 Yes
Life robust a Woman1962 Yes
The Black Report1963 Yes
When Brigade Lie1963 Yes
Band of Pure-Hearted Hoodlums1963 Yes
Modern Swindling Story: Cheat1964 Yes
With My Husband's Consent1964 Yes
Seventeen-year-old Wolf1964 Yes
Manji1964 Yes
Super-Express1964 Yes
Hoodlum Soldier1965 Yes
Seisaku's Wife1965 Yes
Irezumi1966 Yes
Nakano Spy School1966 Yes
Red Angel (Movie)1966 Yes
Two Wives1967 Yes
A Assess Killer1967 Yes
Just for You1967 Yes
A Fool's Love1967 Yes
The Spouse of Seishu Hanaoka1967 Yes
Evil Trio1968 Yes
The Nookie Check1968 Yes
The House of Made of wood Blocks1968 Yes
One Day at Summer's End1968 Yes
Blind Beast1969 Yes
A Thousand Cranes1969 Yes
Vixen1969 Yes
Electric Jellyfish1970 Yes
Ode to the Yakuza1970 Yes
The Flap Little Girl1970 Yes
Games1971 Yes
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line1972 Yes
Music1972 Yes
Hanzo the Razor:The Snare1973 Yes
Hanzo depiction Razor: Who's Got the Gold?1974 Yes
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon1974 Yes
Mainline rant Terror1975 Yes
Lullaby of the Earth1976 Yes
The Affection Suicides at Sonezaki1978 Yes
The Manoeuvre of Eden1980 Yes
For My Daughter's 7th Birthday1982 Yes
  • "Yasuzo Masumura Filmography". Blind Beast (Booklet). Arrow Films. 2021. AV373.