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Toshio Masuda

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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  • Rusty Knife

    Rusty Knife

    Department Writing

    Job Writer

    Average Rating
    5.7
    15 votes
    Release Date
    Mar 11, 1958
    69 years ago
  • Prophecies of Nostradamus

    Prophecies of Nostradamus

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    6.0
    15 votes
    Release Date
    Aug 03, 1974
    52 years ago
  • Prophecies of Nostradamus

    Prophecies of Nostradamus

    Department Writing

    Job Adaptation

    Average Rating
    6.0
    15 votes
    Release Date
    Aug 03, 1974
    52 years ago
  • Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato

    Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    7.9
    9 votes
    Release Date
    Jul 14, 1978
    48 years ago
  • Be Forever Yamato

    Be Forever Yamato

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    7.6
    9 votes
    Release Date
    Aug 01, 1980
    46 years ago
  • Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato

    Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato

    Department Writing

    Job Original Story

    Average Rating
    7.9
    9 votes
    Release Date
    Jul 14, 1978
    48 years ago
  • Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage

    Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage

    Department Writing

    Job Writer

    Average Rating
    6.5
    7 votes
    Release Date
    Sep 10, 1979
    47 years ago
  • Velvet Hustler

    Velvet Hustler

    Department Writing

    Job Writer

    Average Rating
    6.3
    7 votes
    Release Date
    Oct 06, 1967
    59 years ago
  • Final Yamato

    Final Yamato

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    7.0
    7 votes
    Release Date
    Mar 19, 1983
    43 years ago
  • Tokyo Blackout

    Tokyo Blackout

    Department Writing

    Job Writer

    Average Rating
    5.5
    6 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 16, 1987
    39 years ago
  • Red Handkerchief

    Red Handkerchief

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    7.0
    5 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 03, 1964
    63 years ago
  • Red Pier

    Red Pier

    Department Writing

    Job Writer

    Average Rating
    6.2
    4 votes
    Release Date
    Sep 23, 1958
    68 years ago
  • The Champion

    The Champion

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    6.0
    4 votes
    Release Date
    May 01, 1957
    69 years ago
  • Conflagration

    Conflagration

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    6.5
    4 votes
    Release Date
    Jul 12, 1975
    51 years ago
  • Love: Starting on a Journey

    Love: Starting on a Journey

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    2.5
    2 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 26, 1985
    41 years ago
  • High Seas Hijack

    High Seas Hijack

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    10.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    Oct 20, 1977
    49 years ago
  • Exiled to Hell

    Exiled to Hell

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 22, 1969
    58 years ago
  • My Blood is the Blood of Others

    My Blood is the Blood of Others

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Oct 12, 1974
    52 years ago
  • The Fatal Raid

    The Fatal Raid

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Aug 23, 1969
    57 years ago
  • Hotbed of Crime

    Hotbed of Crime

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Mar 26, 1961
    66 years ago
  • Highteen Boogie

    Highteen Boogie

    Department Writing

    Job Writer

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Aug 07, 1982
    44 years ago
  • Evil Reward

    Evil Reward

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 08, 1956
    71 years ago
  • Dohten

    Dohten

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 26, 1991
    35 years ago
  • Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi

    Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 14, 1962
    65 years ago
  • 零戦黒雲一家

    零戦黒雲一家

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Aug 12, 1962
    64 years ago
  • Lunar Eclipse

    Lunar Eclipse

    Department Writing

    Job Writer

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Dec 19, 1956
    70 years ago
  • Challenge for Glory

    Challenge for Glory

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Oct 18, 1966
    60 years ago
  • Man of a Stormy Era

    Man of a Stormy Era

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jun 22, 1968
    58 years ago
  • Blood Shed

    Blood Shed

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Apr 10, 1966
    60 years ago
  • Taking the Castle

    Taking the Castle

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Mar 06, 1965
    62 years ago
  • The Man of Victory

    The Man of Victory

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Feb 25, 1967
    60 years ago
  • Man at the Bullfight

    Man at the Bullfight

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Dec 27, 1960
    66 years ago
  • Why Are We Young?

    Why Are We Young?

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jul 14, 1965
    61 years ago
  • The Last Days of Planet Earth

    The Last Days of Planet Earth

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Apr 18, 1981
    45 years ago
  • The Last Days of Planet Earth

    The Last Days of Planet Earth

    Department Writing

    Job Adaptation

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Apr 18, 1981
    45 years ago
  • The Endless Duel

    The Endless Duel

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Nov 18, 1967
    59 years ago
  • 対決

    対決

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Sep 06, 1967
    59 years ago
  • Get Over Her

    Get Over Her

    Department Writing

    Job Screenplay

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 28, 1959
    68 years ago
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