Direction: Yasuzô Masumura

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Yasuzô Masumura. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Red Angel

1966 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Shinsuke Ashida · Yusuke Kawazu · Ranko Akagi

Plot In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe...

7.6

419 votes

7.6

419 votes

Seisaku's Wife

1965 · Movie · 93 min. · Japan

7.6

223 votes

7.6

223 votes

Dr. Hanaoka's wife

1967 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

7.4

44 votes

7.4

44 votes

A Wife Confesses

1961 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Eitarô Ozawa · Jun Negami

Plot The spirit of Resnais runs deep in this existential melodrama. A young woman on a mountaineering holiday is accused of murdering her husband. Tied to a mountain between her brutalising...

7.4

142 votes

7.4

142 votes

With My Husband's Consent

1964 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

7.0

40 votes

7.0

40 votes

Kisses

1957 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Hitomi Nozoe · Aiko Mimasu · Eitarô Ozawa

Plot Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together at the beach. Akiko, who tries...

7.0

161 votes

7.0

161 votes

Blind Beast

1969 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Mako Midori · Noriko Sengoku

Plot A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model.

6.9

645 votes

6.9

645 votes

Tatouage

1966 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

6.9

194 votes

6.9

194 votes

All Mixed Up

1964 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Kyôko Kishida · Yusuke Kawazu · Eiji Funakoshi

Plot A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.

6.8

186 votes

6.8

186 votes

The Blue Sky Maiden

1957 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Kenji Sugawara · Keizo Kawasaki · Sadako Sawamura

Plot Early Masumura is contemporary with late Douglas Sirk -- both harnessed garish fifties modernism for a scathing, full-color portrait of ambition in the new middle class. In Blue Sky Maiden,...

6.7

81 votes

6.7

81 votes

Warm Current

1957 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Jun Negami · Sachiko Hidari · Hitomi Nozoe · Eiji Funakoshi

Plot A young doctor, who runs a small hospital, has to choose between two women: a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.

6.7

35 votes

6.7

35 votes

Giants and Toys

1958 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Hitomi Nozoe · Yûnosuke Itô · Michiko Ono

Plot Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies. His boss builds up Kyoko, a...

6.7

128 votes

6.7

128 votes

The Black Test Car

1962 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Junko Kano · Eiji Funakoshi · Hideo Takamatsu

Plot This film noir from Japan is quite an interesting little genre movie. Shot beautifully in black and white, the film is concerned with the moral decrepitude that results from corporate...

6.7

64 votes

6.7

64 votes

The Music

1972 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Noriko Kurosawa · Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Osahide Takahashi · Kôji Moritsugu

Plot A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups. Based on a novel by Yukio Mishima.

6.6

98 votes

6.6

98 votes

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare

1973 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Keiko Aikawa · Kazuko Ineno · Keizo Kanie

Plot Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer,...

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6.5

71 votes

6.5

71 votes

A Lustful Man

1961 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ayako Wakao · Tamao Nakamura · Saburo Date

Plot Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke (Ichikawa Raizo) had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women,...

6.4

48 votes

6.4

48 votes

Double Suicide of Sonezaki

1978 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Meiko Kaji · Ryudo Uzaki · Hisashi Igawa · Sachiko Hidari

Plot "Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new...

6.4

21 votes

6.4

21 votes

6.4

22 votes

Love for an Idiot

1967 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Michiyo Oguso · Shoichi Ozawa · Masakazu Tamura · Sachiko Murase

Plot An updated adaptation of Tanizaki's 1924 novel Naomi about a middle-aged factory engineer who trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she turns him into a slave to...

6.2

46 votes

6.2

46 votes

Afraid to Die

1960 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

6.2

115 votes

6.2

115 votes