Toshio Masuda (Director)

Reviews of movies from director Toshio Masuda

Looking for reviews of films directed by Toshio Masuda? Cinafilm has a total of 469 reviews across 2 movies directed by Toshio Masuda.

Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 67%.

Tora! Tora! Tora! is Toshio Masuda's highest rated movie, with a score of 70% based on 468 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Toshio Masuda is Shadow Hunters, with a score of 65% based on 1 reviews.

Director Biography

Toshiro Masuda (born October 5, 1927 in Kobe, Hugo, Japan) is a Japanese film director. He developed a reputation as a consistent box office hit-maker. Over the course of five decades, made the feeling of 16 films in the yearly top ten lists at the Japanese box office—a record second place 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 ten productions such as Space Battleship Yamato anime series. Feeling corporate Drama Company Funeral (1989) earned him a Japanese Academy Award nominations and wins at the Blue Ribbon Awards and Mainichi Film Awards. In Japan, his films are well remembered by genre fans and critics called Landmarks. He remains little known abroad, save for very rare exceptions to the feeling of post-Nikkatsu work such as Tora! Tora! Tora!. However, in a 2005 Nikkatsu action cinema retrospective and a number of balconies were feeling films made their way to Italy since there are a few in the United States. At the age of 81, he is currently prepping to helm the Senka Uchuu Yamato: Fukkatsu hen (2009).

Toshio Masuda has directed films starring Dan Leegant, James Whitmore, Tetsuro Tamba and Martin Balsam.

Toshio Masuda has collaborated with these film directors: Kinji Fukasaku and Richard Fleischer.