• Yasuzō Masumura (増村 保造, Masumura Yasuzō, 25 August 1924 – 23 November 1986) was a Japanese film director. Masumura was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi. After graduating...
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  • Ichikawa 1956: Crazed Fruit, Kō Nakahira 1957: Kisses, Yasuzō Masumura 1958: Giants and Toys, Yasuzō Masumura 1959: The Assignation, Kō Nakahira 1959: A Town...
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  • Kisses (1957 film) (category Films directed by Yasuzo Masumura)
    1957 Japanese drama film directed by Yasuzō Masumura, based on a novel by Matsutarō Kawaguchi. It was Masumura's debut as a director and is regarded as...
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  • Yūzō Kawashima) 1962: Black Test Car (dir. Yasuzō Masumura) 1962: A Woman's Life (dir. Yasuzō Masumura) 1962: The Graceful Brute (dir. Yūzō Kawashima)...
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    (1923–2011) Red Angel (Movie) is a 1966 Japanese war drama film by Yasuzō Masumura where there are scenes of comfort women. A Secret Buried for 50 Years...
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  • Blind Beast (category Films directed by Yasuzo Masumura)
    Mōjū), aka Moju the Blind Beast is a 1969 Japanese film directed by Yasuzo Masumura. It is based on a novel by Edogawa Rampo. Young aspiring model Aki...
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  • A Woman's Testament (category Films directed by Yasuzo Masumura)
    drama anthology film directed by Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kon Ichikawa and Yasuzō Masumura. The film consists of three stories revolving around women. The first...
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  • film Trading Places (1983) Otsuya (Ayako Wakao) in Irezumi (1966) by Yasuzō Masumura (Japan) (Japanese) (Drama); from novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Sahibjaan...
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    Yasujirō Ozu 1957: The Blue Sky Maiden, dir. Yasuzō Masumura 1958: Giants and Toys, dir. Yasuzō Masumura 1958: Conflagration, dir. Kon Ichikawa 1963:...
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  • Angel (movie) (赤い天使, Akai Tenshi), a 1966 Japanese film directed by Yasuzo Masumura Red Angel (rocket), the rainbow code name for a British anti-ship unguided...
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  • Red Angel (movie) (category Films directed by Yasuzo Masumura)
    Red Angel (赤い天使, Akai Tenshi) is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Yasuzo Masumura. It tells the story of a young Japanese nurse on the front lines in...
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  • American silent comedy film Kisses (1957 film), a Japanese film by Yasuzō Masumura Kisses (2008 film), an Irish drama directed by Lance Daly Kiss: The...
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  • The Hoodlum Soldier (category Films directed by Yasuzo Masumura)
    Hoodlum Soldier (兵隊やくざ, Heitai Yakuza) is a Japanese film directed by Yasuzo Masumura. The Hoodlum Soldier was the first of a series of nine films that followed...
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  • Shogun's Joy of Torture (1968) and Horrors of Malformed Men (1969) and Yasuzo Masumura's Blind Beast (1969), the latter two based on the works of Edogawa Ranpo...
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  • Funakoshi as Kotaro Kakiuchi Yūsuke Kawazu as Eijirō Watanuki director: Yasuzo Masumura writer: Kaneto Shindō Cast and staff Kanako Higuchi as Mitsuko Sido...
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  • Afraid to Die (category Films directed by Yasuzo Masumura)
    Man Blown by the Wind) is a 1960 Japanese yakuza film directed by Yasuzo Masumura and starring Yukio Mishima. Yukio Mishima – Takeo Asahina Ayako Wakao...
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  • The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (1978 film) (category Films directed by Yasuzo Masumura)
    Of Sonezaki) is a 1978 Japanese historical romance film directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Ryudo Uzaki and Meiko Kaji based on the Chikamatsu play of...
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  • Kunizawa Kazuo Kuroki Akira Kurosawa Kiyoshi Kurosawa Kunitoshi Manda Yasuzo Masumura Toshio Matsumoto Mitsuru Meike Mitsuhiro Mihara Takashi Miike Takahiro...
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    notable example being Yasuzo Masumura’s adaptation of Chijin no Ai (A Fool's Love) in 1967. Chijin no Ai (Directed by Yasuzo Masumura, Release date September...
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  • film several times. The first was the 1964 film Manji, directed by Yasuzo Masumura, written by Kaneto Shindo and starring Ayako Wakao and Kyōko Kishida...
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  • Lullaby of the Earth (大地の子守唄, Daichi no komoriuta) (June 1976, d. Yasuzo Masumura) Yakuza Graveyard (1976) Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978) Tree Without...
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  • A False Student (category Films directed by Yasuzo Masumura)
    (偽大学生, Nise daigakusei) is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Yasuzō Masumura. It is based on the story Gisho no toki by Japanese writer Kenzaburō...
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    favorite actress of director Yasuzo Masumura, starring in 20 of his films. In addition to her many collaborations with Masumura, she was a favorite of Kon...
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  • Santos Brazil LC Barreto Produções Cinematográficas Manji (1964) 卍 Yasuzô Masumura Japan Kadokawa Corporation The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)...
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  • as Ode to the Yakuza is a 1970 Japanese film directed by Yasuzo Masumura. Katsu and Masumura worked together for the first in 5 years. It is based on...
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  • Kyō, and Ayako Wakao; the directors Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, Yasuzo Masumura, Tokuzō Tanaka, and Kenji Misumi; and the cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa...
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  • daughter and her fiancé, so he hatches a scheme to involve his wife. Yasuzo Masumura's 1964 film adaptation of Junichirō Tanizaki's novel Quicksand (Manji)...
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  • Director Kenji Misumi Yasuzo Masumura Yoshio Inoue Producer(s) Shintaro Katsu, Kozen Nishioka Screenplay Kazuo Koike Yasuzo Masumura Composer(s) Kunihiko...
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  • Giants and Toys (category Films directed by Yasuzo Masumura)
    The Build-Up, is a 1958 Japanese satirical comedy film directed by Yasuzo Masumura based on a story by Takeshi Kaikō. Candy manufacturer World competes...
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  • Black Test Car (category Films directed by Yasuzo Masumura)
    no shisō-sha)) is a 1962 Japanese crime thriller film directed by Yasuzo Masumura, co-written by Kazuo Funahashi and Yoshihiro Ishimatsu, and based on...
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