Yasuzo Masumura

Yasuzo Masumura
Born (1924-08-25)August 25, 1924
Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan
Died 23 November 1986(1986-11-23) (aged 62)
Japan
Occupation Film director, screenwriter

Yasuzo Masumura (増村 保造 Masumura Yasuzō, August 25, 1924 – November 23, 1986) was a Japanese film director.

Biography

Masumura was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi. After dropping out of a law course at the University of Tokyo he worked as an assistant director at the Daiei Film 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.[1]

Masumura returned to Japan in 1953. From 1955, he worked as a second-unit director on films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa and Daisuke Ito, before directing his own first film, Kisses, in 1957.[2] Over the next three decades, he directed 58 films in a variety of genres.[3]

Legacy

Japanese film critic Shigehiko Hasumi said, "Young and influential filmmaker Shinji Aoyama declared that Masumura is the most important filmmaker in the history of postwar Japanese cinema."[4]

Filmography

  • Kisses (1957)
  • The Blue Sky Maiden (1957)
  • Warm Current (1957)
  • The Precipice (1958)
  • Giants and Toys (1958)
  • Futeki na Otoko (1958)
  • Oyafuko Dori (1958)
  • Saiko Shukun Fujin (1959)
  • Hanran (1959)
  • Bibo ni Tsumi Ari (1959)
  • Yami o Yokogire (1959)
  • Jokyo (1960)
  • Afraid to Die (1960)
  • The Woman Who Touched the Legs (1960)
  • A False Student (1960)
  • Koi ni Inochi o (1960)
  • A Lustful Man (1961)
  • A Wife Confesses (1961)
  • Urusai Imototachi (1961)
  • Tadare (1962)
  • The Black Test Car (1962)
  • Onna no Issho (1962)
  • Kuro no Hokokusho (1963)
  • Uso (1963)
  • Gurentai Junjoha (1963)
  • Gendai Inchiki Monogatari: Damashiya (1964)
  • Otto ga Mita 'Onna no Kobako' yori (1964)
  • Manji (1964)
  • Super Express (1964)
  • The Hoodlum Soldier (1965)
  • Seisaku's Wife (1965)
  • Irezumi (1966)
  • Nakano Spy School (1966)
  • Red Angel (1966)
  • Two Wives (1967)
  • Chijin no Ai (1967)
  • The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)
  • Dai Akuto (1968)
  • Sekkusu Chekku: Daini no Sei (1968)
  • Tsumiki no Hako (1968)
  • Nureta Futari (1968)
  • Blind Beast (1969)
  • Senbazuru (1969)
  • Jotai (1969)
  • Denki Kurage (1970)
  • Yakuza Zessho (1970)
  • Shibire Kurage (1970)
  • Asobi (1971)
  • Shin Heitai Yakuza: Kasen (1972)
  • The Music (1972)
  • Hanzo the Razor:The Snare (1973)
  • Akumyo: Nawabari Arashi (1974)
  • Domyaku Retto (1975)
  • Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
  • Sonezaki Shinju (1978)
  • Eden no Sono (1980)
  • Konoko no Nanastu no Oiwai ni (1982)

References

  1. ↑ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (April 30, 1998). "Tales of Ordinary Madness: Films by Yasuzo Masumura". Chicago Reader.
  2. ↑ Mes, Tom (June 1, 2010). "Yasuzo Masumura: Passion and Excess". Midnight Eye.
  3. ↑ Parkinson, David (September 2005). "Yasuzo Masumura 2005". BBC.
  4. ↑ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (March 30, 2001). "Dialogue Between Shigehiko Hasumi and Jonathan Rosenbaum on Howard Hawks and Yasuzo Masumura". JonathanRosenbaum.net.
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