Highest rated movie: Blind Beast (1969)
Lowest rated movie: The Cast-Off (1959)
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Looking for reviews of films directed by Yasuzō Masumura? Cinafilm has a total of 266 reviews across 3 movies directed by Yasuzō Masumura.
Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 63%.
Blind Beast is Yasuzō Masumura's highest rated movie, with a score of 71% based on 45 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Yasuzō Masumura is The Cast-Off, with a score of 59% based on 212 reviews.
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 Honshu. 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 a fluid style. Notable films include Red Angel, the Black Test Car, Giants and Toys, the Blind Main, and Hoodlum Soldier.
Yasuzō Masumura has directed films starring Eiji Funakoshi, Ayako Wakao, Fumiko Murata and Kyôko Kishida.
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