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  • BIRTH 05/10/1927
  • Country Japan
  • DIRECTOR 13
  • SCRIPT 7

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).

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Toshio Masuda

Director (13)

Tora! Tora! Tora!
Tora! Tora! Tora!
影狩り
影狩り
愛・旅立ち
愛・旅立ち
日本海大海戦 海ゆかば
日本海大海戦 海ゆかば
完全な遊戯
完全な遊戯
宇宙戦艦ヤマト 新たなる旅立ち
宇宙戦艦ヤマト 新たなる旅立ち
宇宙戦艦ヤマト
宇宙戦艦ヤマト
さらば宇宙戦艦ヤマト 愛の戦士たち
さらば宇宙戦艦ヤマト…
ヤマトよ永遠に
ヤマトよ永遠に
「無頼」より 大幹部
「無頼」より 大幹部
ハイティーン・ブギ
ハイティーン・ブギ
生きていた野良犬
生きていた野良犬

Script (7)

宇宙戦艦ヤマト 新たなる旅立ち
宇宙戦艦ヤマト 新たなる旅立ち
さらば宇宙戦艦ヤマト 愛の戦士たち
さらば宇宙戦艦ヤマト…
ヤマトよ永遠に
ヤマトよ永遠に
ハイティーン・ブギ
ハイティーン・ブギ
生きていた野良犬
生きていた野良犬
愛・旅立ち
愛・旅立ち
宇宙戦艦ヤマト・完結編
宇宙戦艦ヤマト・完結編