Toshio Masuda

Directing·Oct 5, 1927·Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan

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Toshio Masuda (born October 5, 1927 in Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan) is a Japanese film director. He developed a reputation as a consistent box office hit-maker. Over the course of five decades, 16 of his films made the yearly top ten lists at the Japanese box office—a second place record in the industry. Between 1958 and 1968 he directed 52 films for the Nikkatsu Company. He was their top director of action films and worked with the company's top stars, including Yujiro Ishihara with whom he made 25 films. After the breakdown of the studio system, he moved on to a succession of big-budget movies including the American-Japanese co-production Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and the science fiction epic Catastrophe 1999: The Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974). He worked on such anime productions as the Space Battleship Yamato series. His corporate drama Company Funeral (1989) earned him a Japanese Academy Award nomination and wins at the Blue Ribbon Awards and Mainichi Film Awards. In Japan, his films are well remembered by fans and called genre landmarks by critics. He remains little known abroad save for rare exceptions of his post-Nikkatsu work such as Tora! Tora! Tora!. However, a number of his films were screened in a 2005 Nikkatsu Action Cinema retrospective in Italy and a few have since made their way to the United States. At the age of 81, he is currently prepping to helm Uchū Senkan Yamato: Fukkatsu hen (2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article Toshio Masuda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Film	Credit
Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon1993 · Director	Director
Heavenly Sin1992 · Director	Director
TThe Unruly Ronin's Journey II1992 · Director	Director
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan1992 · Director	Director
Sure Death 51991 · Director	Director
The Great Shogunate Battle1991 · Director	Director
Dohten1991 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Minamoto Yoshitsune1990 · Director	Director
The Yagyu Code: Secret Scrolls1990 · Director	Director
Company Executives1989 · Director	Director
Iemitsu, Hikoza and Isshin Tasuke - A National Crisis: Edo Castle in Danger1989 · Director	Director
This Story of Love1987 · Director	Director
Tokyo Blackout1987 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Katayoku dake no tenshi1986 · Director	Director
Vendetta of Obligation1985 · Director	Director
Odin: Starlight Mutiny1985 · Director	Director
Love: Starting on a Journey1985 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Zero1984 · Director	Director
L・O・V・I・N・G1983 · Director	Director
Battle Anthem1983 · Director	Director
Future War 198X1982 · Director	Director
Highteen Boogie1982 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Imperial Japanese Empire1982 · Director	Director
The Last Days of Planet Earth1981 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Port Arthur1980 · Director	Director
Be Forever Yamato1980 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage1979 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato1978 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Space Battleship Yamato1977 · Director	Director
Human Revolution II1976 · Director	Director
My Blood is the Blood of Others1974 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Prophecies of Nostradamus1974 · Voice, Director, Screenplay	Voice, Director, Screenplay
The Human Revolution1973 · Director	Director
Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny1972 · Director	Director
Shadow Hunters1972 · Director	Director
Sword and Flower1972 · Director	Director
Chase That Man1972 · Director	Director
Law of the Outlaw1971 · Director	Director
Challenge at Dawn1971 · Director	Director
Spartan Education1970 · Director	Director
Tora! Tora! Tora!1970 · Director	Director
The Cleanup1969 · Director	Director
The Fatal Raid1969 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Exiled to Hell1969 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Monument to the Girl's Corps1968 · Director	Director
Man of a Stormy Era1968 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Song of my Life1968 · Director	Director
Outlaw: Gangster VIP1968 · Director	Director
The Endless Duel1967 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Velvet Hustler1967 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
対決1967 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Man of Victory1967 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Challenge for Glory1966 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Stormy Man1966 · Director	Director
Kill the Night Rose1966 · Director	Director
Blood Shed1966 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Showdown in the Red Valley1965 · Director	Director
Why Are We Young?1965 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Taking the Castle1965 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Eliminate The Killer1964 · Director	Director
Jinsei Gekijo1964 · Director	Director
Red Handkerchief1964 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Prince of Wolves1963 · Director	Director
Escape into Terror1963 · Director	Director
A Man with Dragon Tattoos1962 · Director	Director
Two People, Yet All Alone1962 · Director	Director
零戦黒雲一家1962 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Keep Your Chin Up1962 · Director	Director
Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi1962 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Quiet Man of the Underworld1961 · Director	Director
Lost in the Sun1961 · Director	Director
Where the Horizon Meets the Sun1961 · Director	Director
Hotbed of Crime1961 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Man at the Bullfight1960 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Brawler1960 · Director	Director
The Day of Youth1960 · Director	Director
Yakuza Song1960 · Director	Director
The Sky Is Mine1959 · Director	Director
A Man Explodes1959 · Director	Director
We Live Today1959 · Director	Director
Get Over Her1959 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Perfect Game1958 · Director	Director
Red Pier1958 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Rusty Knife1958 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director