Masahiro Makino

Directing·Feb 29, 1908·Kyoto, Japan

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Masahiro Makino (マキノ雅弘, Makino Masahiro, February 29, 1908 - October 29, 1993) was a Japanese film director. He directed more than 260 films, primarily in the chanbara and yakuza genres. His real name was Masatada (正唯), but he took the stage name Masahiro, the kanji for which he changed multiple times (including 雅広, 正博, and 雅裕). Masahiro Makino was born in Kyoto, the eldest son of the film director and producer Shōzō Makino, who is often called the father of Japanese cinema. As a youth he acted in over 100 films before debuting as a film director in 1926 at age 18. His critically acclaimed nihilistic jidaigeki such as Roningai (1928) made him one of the top Japanese film directors, but his way of shooting films quickly also earned him detractors. For instance, the total time it took to shoot the 1936 film Edo no Ka Oshō was only 28 hours.The critic Sadao Yamane, however, has argued that this fast filming practice also contributed to Makino's speedy, rhythmic film style. Rhythm and tempo are important to his films, and so in his jidaigeki, fight scenes like in Kettō Takadanobaba (1937) could seem like dances, or entire sequences, like in Awa no Odoriko (1941), could be filled with dance. He made musicals like Singing Lovebirds (1939) and even his wartime propaganda films like Hanako-san and Ahen senso (both 1943) could have Busby Berkeley-like musical numbers. After the war, he helmed such popular jidaigeki series as Jirōchō Sangokushi and such ninkyō eiga series as Nihon Kyōkaku-den. He directed his last film in 1972, the retirement film for Junko Fuji, completing a filmography that totaled over 260 films and included films of many genres.

Film	Credit
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang1972 · Director	Director
The Path of the King1971 · Director	Director
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny1970 · Director	Director
Born Fighter1970 · Director	Director
Peonies And Dragons1970 · Director	Director
Woman Boss1970 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Bad Reputation: Showdown of the Best1969 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza1969 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Domain: Flower and Dragon1969 · Director	Director
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo1969 · Director	Director
New Prison Walls of Abashiri1968 · Director	Director
Rogue1968 · Director	Director
Histories of the Chivalrous1968 · Director	Director
The Domain: Severed Relations1968 · Director	Director
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters1967 · Director	Director
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 41967 · Director	Director
The Chivalrous Life1967 · Director	Director
The Domain: White Blade1967 · Director	Director
Debt of Honor1966 · Director	Director
The Domain: Duel at Thunder Gate1966 · Director	Director
Japan's Most Chivalrous1966 · Director	Director
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown1966 · Director	Director
One Man's Chivalry1965 · Director	Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 41965 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry1965 · Director	Director
Chocho and Yuji's Marital Goodness1965 · Director	Director
Irogotoshi harudanji1965 · Director	Director
The Domain: The Naniwa Story1965 · Director	Director
The Domain1964 · Director	Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 31964 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 21963 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 11963 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword1963 · Director	Director
Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge1963 · Director	Director
Tattoo of Love1963 · Director	Director
53 Stages of Action1963 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
A Revengeful Raid1962 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Yakuza Official1962 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Lady Sen and Hideyori1962 · Director	Director
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido1962 · Director	Director
The Man Who Came to the Harbor Festival1961 · Director	Director
Works of the Fish Man1961 · Director	Director
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region1961 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Mask of the Moon1961 · Director	Director
Edo Purebreed1961 · Director	Director
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region1960 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor1960 · Director	Director
Runway to Hell1960 · Director	Director
Yakuza of Ina1960 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
An Actor's Revenge1959 · Director	Director
Evil Man of Edo1959 · Director	Director
Echo in the Mountains1959 · Director	Director
Whirlwind Magistrate1959 · Director	Director
Goblin in Stirrups1959 · Director	Director
Fighting Disposition1958 · Director	Director
Kanbei's Bargain Sale1958 · Director	Director
The Traveling Ruffian1958 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Fearless Opposition1958 · Director	Director
Bull's Eye of Love1958 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
The Ornery Entrance to the Sumo Ring with a Sword1957 · Director	Director
Temple of Revenge1957 · Director	Director
Street of Ronin1957 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Pure-Hearted Unit1957 · Director	Director
Kin Toyama-san's Detective Story: Man in the Shadows1956 · Director	Director
Eacape of Fear1956 · Director	Director
SSuch is Life1955 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
BBlood Festival of Akagi1955 · Director	Director
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf1955 · Director	Director
Jirochô yûkyôden: Akiba no himatsuri1955 · Director	Director
Daikichi Konomura1954 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Jirocho in Disgrace1954 · Director	Director
Yakuza bayashi1954 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Last of the Wild Ones1954 · Director	Director
My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men1954 · Director	Director
Utsukushiki taka1954 · Director	Director
Jirocho's New Year1954 · Director	Director
Jirocho, the Hunted1953 · Director	Director
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow1953 · Director	Director
Zoku Tange Sazen1953 · Director	Director
Tange Sazen1953 · Director	Director
Jirocho's Home-Coming1953 · Director	Director
Her Captive Gamblers1953 · Director	Director
The Last Embrace1953 · Director	Director
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life1953 · Director	Director
Night in Hawaii1953 · Director	Director
Jirocho Rises in Fame1952 · Director	Director
武蔵と小次郎1952 · Director	Director
Suttobi kago1952 · Director	Director
Divorce1952 · Director	Director
Grease Paint Serenade1952 · Director	Director
豪快三人男1951 · Director	Director
The Killing of Otsuya1951 · Director	Director
The Official And The Princess of Thieves1951 · Director	Director
A Thousand Standards of Stone1950 · Director	Director
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom1950 · Director	Director
Fencing Master1950 · Director	Director
SSugawara denju tenarai kagami1950 · Director	Director
Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood1949 · Director	Director
Ghosts Die at Dawn1948 · Director	Director
Gate of Flesh1948 · Director	Director
Golden Devil Part 21948 · Director	Director
Golden Devil1948 · Director	Director
NNonkina tosan1946 · Director	Director
WWaiting Woman1946 · Director	Director
IIki na fûraibô1946 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
SSennichimae fukin1945 · Director	Director
Victory Song1945 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Field Army Orchestra1944 · Director	Director
Sinking the Unsinkable1944 · Director	Director
Miss Hanako1943 · Director	Director
TThe Opium War1943 · Director	Director
OOnna keizu1942 · Director	Director
The Man Who Waited1942 · Director	Director
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph1941 · Director	Director
世世紀は笑ふ1941 · Director	Director
Dancers of Awa1941 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Iemitsu and Hikoza1941 · Director	Director
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday1941 · Director	Director
ZZoku Shimizu Minato1940 · Director	Director
OOda Nobunaga1940 · Director	Director
Singing Lovebirds1939 · Director	Director
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary1938 · Director	Director
Chushingura1938 · Director	Director
Kurama Tengu1938 · Director	Director
JJiraiya1937 · Director	Director
Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba1937 · Director	Director
Echo of Love1937 · Director	Director
hhonchō kai neko Tsutō1937 · Director	Director
GGoronbo-gai1936 · Director	Director
KKunisada Chūji: Shinshū komoriuta1936 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
BBanquet Under the Midnight Sun1932 · Director	Director
RRônin-gai - Dai-san-wa: Tsukareta hitobito1929 · Director	Director
Beheading Place1929 · Director	Director
TThe Demon at the Modoribashi Bridge1929 · Director	Director
Samurai Town Story Part II1929 · Director	Director
SSozenji Baba1928 · Director	Director
SSamurai Town Story Part I1928 · Director	Director
Keai-dori1928 · Director	Director