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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Toshio Masuda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1927-10-05
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Directing
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- info Birth Place Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Toshio Masuda
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970-01-26
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Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
1978-07-14
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Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
1978-07-14
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Space Battleship Yamato
1977-08-06
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Rusty Knife
1958-03-11
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Rusty Knife
1958-03-11
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Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
1979-09-10
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Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
1979-09-10
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Shadow Hunters
1972-06-10
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Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
1972-10-10
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The Perfect Game
1958-11-11
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Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974-08-03
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Velvet Hustler
1967-10-06
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Velvet Hustler
1967-10-06
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Be Forever Yamato
1980-08-01
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Keep Your Chin Up
1962-03-04
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Exiled to Hell
1969-01-22
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Exiled to Hell
1969-01-22
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The Day of Youth
1960-04-29
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My Blood is the Blood of Others
1974-10-12
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My Blood is the Blood of Others
1974-10-12
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The Fatal Raid
1969-08-23
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The Fatal Raid
1969-08-23
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Prince of Wolves
1963-10-04
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Hotbed of Crime
1961-03-26
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Hotbed of Crime
1961-03-26
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Kill the Night Rose
1966-06-09
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A Man Explodes
1959-04-28
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Love: Starting on a Journey
1985-01-26
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Port Arthur
1980-08-02
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Tokyo Blackout
1987-01-16
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Red Handkerchief
1964-01-03
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Tokyo Blackout
1987-01-16
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Highteen Boogie
1982-08-07
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Highteen Boogie
1982-08-07
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Evil Reward
1956-01-08
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The Cleanup
1969-12-31
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Dohten
1991-01-26
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Dohten
1991-01-26
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Outlaw: Gangster VIP
1968-01-13
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Future War 198X
1982-10-30
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The Imperial Japanese Empire
1982-08-07
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Monument to the Girl's Corps
1968-09-21
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Conflagration
1975-07-12
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Zero
1984-08-11
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Battle Anthem
1983-06-04
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Hitoribotchi no futari daga
1962-11-03
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Red Pier
1958-09-23
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Chase That Man
1972-02-23
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Spartan Education
1970-08-12
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Hana to ryu
1962-12-26
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Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
1992-01-03
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Heavenly Sin
1992-10-03
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Showdown in the Red Valley
1965-12-29
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High Seas Hijack
1977-10-20
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Love: Starting on a Journey
1985-01-26
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Company Executives
1989-06-10
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Odin: Starlight Mutiny
1985-08-10
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The Great Shogunate Battle
1991-12-14
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This Story of Love
1987-09-12
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Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
1962-01-14
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Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
1962-01-14
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Iemitsu, Hikoza and Isshin Tasuke - A National Crisis: Edo Castle in Danger
1989-01-03
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The Unruly Ronin's Journey II
1992-03-30
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Sword and Flower
1972-04-14
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Red Pier
1958-09-23
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Human Revolution II
1976-06-19
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Sure Death 5
1991-12-23
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零戦黒雲一家
1962-08-12
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零戦黒雲一家
1962-08-12
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The Eagle and the Hawk
1957-09-29
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The Champion
1957-05-01
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Kanto Street Peddlers Clan: Violent Loyalty
1970-03-05
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Lost in the Sun
1961-08-16
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L・O・V・I・N・G
1983-12-24
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Be Forever Yamato
1980-08-01
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Triton of the Sea
1979-07-04
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The Heart
1955-08-31
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Man at the Bullfight
1960-12-27
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The Poem of the Blue Star
1960-01-31
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Lunar Eclipse
1956-12-19
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Red Handkerchief
1964-01-03
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Challenge for Glory
1966-10-18
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Challenge for Glory
1966-10-18
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The Stormy Man
1966-10-03
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Man of a Stormy Era
1968-06-22
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Man of a Stormy Era
1968-06-22
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The Burmese Harp
1956-01-21
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Blood Shed
1966-04-10
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Dancing Sisters
1957-01-03
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Blood Shed
1966-04-10
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Minamoto Yoshitsune
1990-12-31
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Taking the Castle
1965-03-06
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Vendetta of Obligation
1985-12-30
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Taking the Castle
1965-03-06
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The Human Revolution
1973-09-08
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The Man of Victory
1967-02-25
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Song of my Life
1968-05-29
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The Man of Victory
1967-02-25
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Jinsei Gekijo
1964-02-23
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Farewell to the Code
1971-09-11
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The Sky Is Mine
1959-11-01
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Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
1993-01-03
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Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
1978-07-14
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Man at the Bullfight
1960-12-27
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Final Yamato
1983-03-19
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Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974-08-03
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Nikoyon monogatari
1956-09-11
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Why Are We Young?
1965-07-14
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Why Are We Young?
1965-07-14
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Where the Horizon Meets the Sun
1961-07-15
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The Last Days of Planet Earth
1981-04-18
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The Last Days of Planet Earth
1981-04-18
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We Live Today
1959-03-10
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Lone Wolf and Cub
1973-04-08
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The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
1981-01-07
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The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
1981-01-07
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Miyamoto Musashi
1990-01-02
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Father and Son Hawk
1994-01-11
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三国志
1992-01-24
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The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
1981-01-07