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person_profile-Toshio Masuda

Toshio Masuda Age: 97

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Toshio Masuda

Date of Birth:

Oct 05, 1927

Country of birth:

Japan

Biography of

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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Filmography of

Toshio Masuda

Found 81 Movies in total

... 1993

... 1992

... 1992

... 1991

... 1991

Dohten

Screenplay

... 1991

... 1990

... 1989

... 1989

... 1987

... 1987

... 1985

... 1985

... 1985

Zero

Director

... 1984

... 1983

... 1983

Final Yamato

Screenplay

... 1983

... 1982

... 1982

... 1982

... 1981

Port Arthur

Director

... 1980

... 1980

... 1979

... 1978

... 1977

... 1974

Prophecies of Nostradamus

Voice ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1974

... 1973

... 1972

... 1972

... 1972

... 1972

... 1971

... 1970

... 1970

The Cleanup

Director

... 1969

The Fatal Raid

Screenplay

... 1969

Exiled to Hell

Screenplay

... 1969

... 1968

... 1968

... 1968

... 1968

... 1967

... 1967

対決

Screenplay

... 1967

... 1967

... 1966

... 1966

... 1966

Blood Shed

Screenplay

... 1966

... 1965

... 1965

... 1965

... 1964

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... 1958

Red Pier

Writer

... 1958

... 1958

The Eagle and the Hawk

Assistant Director

... 1957

Dancing Sisters

Assistant Director

... 1957

Nikoyon monogatari

Assistant Director

... 1956

The Burmese Harp

Assistant Director

... 1956

The Heart

Assistant Director

... 1955