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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Irezumi (1966)
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Blind Beast (1969)
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Manji (1964)
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Red Angel (1966)
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Hoodlum Soldier (1965)
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Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
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A Lustful Man (1961)
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Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)
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Giants and Toys (1958)
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Vixen (1969)
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Love for an Idiot (1967)
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Play It Cool (1970)
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Afraid to Die (1960)
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Warm Current (1957)
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The Most Valuable Wife (1959)
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Main Line to Terror (1975)
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Superexpress (1964)
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Seisaku's Wife (1965)
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Love and Life (1961)
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)
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An Ode to Yakuza (1970)
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The Sex Check (1968)
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Games (1971)
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The School of Spies (1966)
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The Blue Sky Maiden (1957)
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A Woman's Testament (1960)
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The House of Wooden Blocks (1968)
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Two Wives (1967)
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Stolen Pleasure (1962)
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Black Report (1963)
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The Hot Little Girl (1970)
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Thousand Cranes (1969)
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Black Test Car (1962)
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Music (1972)
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Love and Greed (1964)
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The Burdened Sisters (1961)
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Kisses (1957)
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New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line (1972)
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Lullaby of Death (1982)
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Beauty the Enemy (1959)
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When Women Lie (1963)
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A Wife Confesses (1961)
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Fools at Work (1964)
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Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978)
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The Precipice (1958)
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Disobedience (1958)
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Akumyo: Notorious Dragon (1974)
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The False Student (1960)
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The Cast-Off (1959)
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The Garden of Eden (1980)
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Sentimental Mobsters (1963)
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The Lowest Man (1958)
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One Day at Summer's End (1968)
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Across the Darkness (1959)
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The Great Villains (1968)
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A Woman's Life (1962)
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The primary colored butterfly was watching - the smell of death (1978)
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The Woman Who Touched Legs (1960)
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