Toshio Masuda
Regisseur, Schrijver, Acteur, Producer
5 oktober 1927 (98 years)
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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Known For
Cinematografie
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| 1985 | Odin: Photon Space Sailer Starlight · as Screenplay |
| 1983 | Final Yamato · as Screenplay |
| 1980 | Be Forever Yamato · as Screenplay |
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| 1978 | Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato: Warriors of Love · as Screenplay |
| 1975 | Conflagration · as Screenplay |
| 1974 | Prophecies of Nostradamus · as Screenplay |
| 1969 | Daikanbu nagurikomi! · as Screenplay |
| 1969 | Jigoku no hamonjo · as Screenplay |
| 1968 | Showa no inochi · as Screenplay |
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| 1967 | Taiketsu · as Screenplay |
| 1967 | Hoshi yo nageku na: Shôri no otoko · as Screenplay |
| 1966 | Eiko eno chôsen · as Screenplay |
| 1966 | Nihon ninkyôden: Chimatsuri kenkajô · as Screenplay |
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| 1965 | Seishun to wa nanda · as Screenplay |
| 1965 | Shirotori · as Screenplay |
| 1964 | Kawachi zoro: Kenka shamo · as Screenplay |
| 1964 | Akai hankachi · as Screenplay |
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| 1962 | Men and Women's Lullaby Game · as Screenplay |
| 1960 | Tôgyû ni kakeru otoko · as Screenplay |
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| 1957 | The Champion · as Screenplay |
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| 1974 | Prophecies of Nostradamus · as Voice |
| 2001 | History vs. Hollywood · as Self |
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| 1979 | Triton of the Sea · as Supervising Director |
| 1979 | Triton of the Sea · as Supervising Producer |
| 1979 | The Boss's Boss · as Cinematographer |
| 1978 | Tono Eijirô no Mito Kômon · as Cinematographer |
| 1978 | The Yagyu Conspiracy · as CinematographerOp Plex |
| 1977 | Japanese Godfather: Ambition · as Cinematographer |
| 1977 | Space Battleship Yamato · as Composition |
| 1977 | Piranha-gundan: Daboshatsu no ten · as Cinematographer |
| 1977 | Japan's Don · as Cinematographer |
| 1976 | Dasso yugi · as Cinematographer |
| 1976 | Authentic True Account: Osaka Shock Tactics · as Cinematographer |
| 1975 | Scoundrel Boss · as Cinematographer |
| 1975 | Company Buggers · as Cinematographer |
| 1974 | The Karate 2 · as Cinematographer |
| 1974 | Bronson Lee, Champion · as Cinematographer |
| 1974 | Jeans Blues: No Future · as Cinematographer |
| 1973 | Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok · as Cinematographer |
| 1973 | Aesthetics of a Bullet · as Cinematographer |
| 1973 | Girl Boss: Revenge · as Cinematographer |
| 1972 | Hot Springs Turtle Geisha · as Cinematographer |
| 1972 | Mamushi no kyôdai: Chôeki jûsankai · as Cinematographer |
| 1971 | A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers · as Cinematographer |
| 1971 | Twisted Sex · as Cinematographer |
| 1971 | A Boss with the Samurai Spirit · as Cinematographer |
| 1969 | The Killer Priest's Journey · as Cinematographer |
| 1957 | The Eagle and the Hawk · as Assistant Director |
| 1956 | Niko-yon monogatari · as Assistant Director |
| 1956 | The Burmese Harp · as Assistant Director |
| 1955 | The Heart · as Assistant Director |