Yasuzō Masumura
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Yasuzo Masumura (増村 保造 Masumura Yasuzō, August 25, 1924 - November 23, 1986) was a Japanese film director. Masumura was born in Kōfu on Honshū. After dropping out of a law course at the University of Tokyo he worked as an assistant director at the Daiei studio, later returning to university to study philosophy; he graduated in 1949. He then won a scholarship allowing him to study film in Italy at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia under Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. Masumura returned to Japan in 1953 and from 1955 worked as a second-unit director on films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi and Kon Ichikawa, before directing his own first film, Kisses, in 1957. Over the next three decades he directed around 60 films in a variety of genres. His work is noted for his dark satire and fluid style. Notable films include Red Angel, Black Test Car, Giants and Toys, Blind Beast and Hoodlum Soldier.
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One Day at Summer's End (1968)
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Irezumi (1966)
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The Woman Who Touched Legs (1960)
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Manji (1964)
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Red Angel (1966)
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The Garden of Eden (1980)
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)
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Giants and Toys (1958)
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Blind Beast (1969)
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Vixen (1969)
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Seisaku's Wife (1965)
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Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978)
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The School of Spies (1966)
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Love for an Idiot (1967)
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Thousand Cranes (1969)
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Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)
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A Wife Confesses (1961)
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Stolen Pleasure (1962)
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Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
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Main Line to Terror (1975)
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The Lowest Man (1958)
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Afraid to Die (1960)
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The House of Wooden Blocks (1968)
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Akumyo: Notorious Dragon (1974)
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Two Wives (1967)
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A Lustful Man (1961)
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Black Test Car (1962)
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Black Report (1963)
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The Blue Sky Maiden (1957)
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The Most Valuable Wife (1959)
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A Woman's Testament (1960)
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The Hot Little Girl (1970)
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A Woman's Life (1962)
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Music (1972)
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When Women Lie (1963)
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Sentimental Mobsters (1963)
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An Ode to Yakuza (1970)
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The Cast-Off (1959)
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Games (1971)
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Play It Cool (1970)
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The False Student (1960)
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Hoodlum Soldier (1965)
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Beauty the Enemy (1959)
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The Precipice (1958)
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Love and Greed (1964)
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Lullaby of Death (1982)
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Warm Current (1957)
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Superexpress (1964)
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Disobedience (1958)
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The Sex Check (1968)
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Kisses (1957)
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New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line (1972)
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The Great Villains (1968)
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The Burdened Sisters (1961)
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Love and Life (1961)
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Across the Darkness (1959)
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Fools at Work (1964)
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The primary colored butterfly was watching - the smell of death (1978)
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