Toshio Masuda
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.
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Lone Wolf and Cub
1973 · Director
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · Director
Sword and Flower
1972 · Director
Highteen Boogie
1982 · Director
Blood Shed
1966 · Director
My Blood is the Blood of Others
1974 · Director
Miyamoto Musashi
1990 · Director
Sure Death 5
1991 · Director
The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
1981 · Director
Port Arthur
1980 · Director
Human Revolution II
1976 · Director
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985 · Director
Father and Son Hawk
1994 · Director
Future War 198X
1982 · Director
Be Forever Yamato
1980 · Director
Space Battleship Yamato
1977 · Director
Battle Anthem
1983 · Director
Zero
1984 · Director
The Imperial Japanese Empire
1982 · Director
Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974 · Director
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
1979 · Director
Tokyo Blackout
1987 · Director
Odin: Starlight Mutiny
1985 · Director
Velvet Hustler
1967 · Director
Kill the Night Rose
1966 · Director
The Yagyu Code: Secret Scrolls
1990 · Director
The Brawler
1960 · Director
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
1978 · Director
Shadow Hunters
1972 · Director
Rusty Knife
1958 · Director
The Last Days of Planet Earth
1981 · Director
Katayoku dake no tenshi
1986 · Director
Challenge at Dawn
1971 · Director
Heavenly Sin
1992 · Director
Minamoto Yoshitsune
1990 · Director
Outlaw: Gangster VIP
1968 · Director
Red Handkerchief
1964 · Director
Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
1972 · Director
Eliminate The Killer
1964 · Director
Law of the Outlaw
1971 · Director
A Man with Dragon Tattoos
1962 · Director
Company Executives
1989 · Director
Monument to the Girl's Corps
1968 · Director
Chase That Man
1972 · Director
The Human Revolution
1973 · Director
Spartan Education
1970 · Director
Taking the Castle
1965 · Director
The Cleanup
1969 · Director
The Day of Youth
1960 · Director
Prince of Wolves
1963 · Director
Vendetta of Obligation
1985 · Director
Lost in the Sun
1961 · Director
Man of a Stormy Era
1968 · Director
The Great Shogunate Battle
1991 · Director
Keep Your Chin Up
1962 · Director
対決
1967 · Director
Hitoribotchi no futari daga
1962 · Director
Challenge for Glory
1966 · Director
Iemitsu, Hikoza and Isshin Tasuke - A National Crisis: Edo Castle in Danger
1989 · Director
零戦黒雲一家
1962 · Director
Red Pier
1958 · Director
L・O・V・I・N・G
1983 · Director
Hotbed of Crime
1961 · Director
We Live Today
1959 · Director
The Endless Duel
1967 · Director
The Perfect Game
1958 · Director
A Man Explodes
1959 · Director
Song of my Life
1968 · Director
The Man of Victory
1967 · Director
Where the Horizon Meets the Sun
1961 · Director
Dohten
1991 · Director
Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
1962 · Director
Yakuza Song
1960 · Director
This Story of Love
1987 · Director
Jinsei Gekijo
1964 · Director
Showdown in the Red Valley
1965 · Director
The Fatal Raid
1969 · Director
Quiet Man of the Underworld
1961 · Director
Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
1993 · Director
The Sky Is Mine
1959 · Director
Exiled to Hell
1969 · Director
Get Over Her
1959 · Director
Why Are We Young?
1965 · Director
Man at the Bullfight
1960 · Director
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
1992 · Director
The Stormy Man
1966 · Director
Escape into Terror
1963 · Director