Toshio Masuda

Toshio Masuda

Known for: Directing
Biography: 1927-10-05 (97 years old)

Biography

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).


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Filmography

all 117

Movies 112

Director 84

Writer 6

TV Shows 5

Creator 1

Producer 1

Screenplay 1

Cinematographer
Lord Mito

Lord Mito (1978)

Movie
Voice / Director / Screenplay
Prophecies of Nostradamus

Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974)

Movie
Cinematographer
The Karate

The Karate (1974)

Movie
Screenplay / Director
The Fatal Raid

The Fatal Raid (1969)

Movie
Director / Screenplay
Exiled to Hell

Exiled to Hell (1969)

Movie
Director / Screenplay
Why Are We Young?

Why Are We Young? (1965)

Movie
Director / Screenplay
零戦黒雲一家

零戦黒雲一家 (1962)

Movie
Assistant Director
Dancing Sisters

Dancing Sisters (1957)

Movie
Assistant Director
The Heart

The Heart (1955)

Movie
Director / Screenplay
Man at the Bullfight

Man at the Bullfight

Movie

Information

Known For
Directing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1927-10-05 (97 years old)

Birth Place
Kobe, Japan

Citizenships
Japan

Also Known As
舛田利雄, 舛田 利雄

Awards
Mainichi Film Award for Best Director, Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director

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1 TV Show
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18 Movies
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18 Movies
Masanori Tsujii
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17 Movies
Shōki Fukae
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16 Movies
Shinsuke Ashida
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14 Movies
Nobuo Kaneko
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Nobuo Kaneko worked together with Toshio Masuda in:
12 Movies
1 TV Show
Kōji Takada
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Kōji Takada worked together with Toshio Masuda in:
12 Movies
Kazuo Kasahara
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Kazuo Kasahara worked together with Toshio Masuda in:
11 Movies
1 TV Show
Ruriko Asaoka
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Ruriko Asaoka worked together with Toshio Masuda in:
12 Movies
Sadao Nakajima
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Sadao Nakajima worked together with Toshio Masuda in:
12 Movies
Yoshirō Aoki
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Yoshirō Aoki worked together with Toshio Masuda in:
12 Movies
Hideaki Nitani
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Hideaki Nitani worked together with Toshio Masuda in:
11 Movies
Tatsuya Fuji
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Tatsuya Fuji worked together with Toshio Masuda in:
11 Movies
Tamio Kawachi
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Tamio Kawachi worked together with Toshio Masuda in:
11 Movies
Hideki Takahashi
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Hideki Takahashi worked together with Toshio Masuda in:
11 Movies
Bunta Sugawara
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Bunta Sugawara worked together with Toshio Masuda in:
10 Movies
Yutaka Chikura
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Yutaka Chikura worked together with Toshio Masuda in:
10 Movies
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