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
Direction Yasuzô Masumura
Cast Ayako Wakao · Takahiro Tamura · Nobuo Chiba · Yuzo Hayakawa
7.6
223 votes
7.6
223 votes
Dr. Hanaoka's wife
1967 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan
Direction Yasuzô Masumura
Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ayako Wakao · Hideko Takamine · Misako Watanabe
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
Direction Yasuzô Masumura
Cast Ayako Wakao · Jiro Tamiya · Keizo Kawasaki · Kyôko Kishida
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
Direction Yasuzô Masumura
Cast Ayako Wakao · Akio Hasegawa · Gaku Yamamoto · Kei Sato
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,...
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
Hoodlum Soldier
1965 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan
Direction Yasuzô Masumura
Cast Shintarô Katsu · Takahiro Tamura · Keiko Awaji · Mikio Narita
6.4
22 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
Direction Yasuzô Masumura
Cast Yukio Mishima · Ayako Wakao · Keizo Kawasaki · Eiji Funakoshi
6.2
115 votes
6.2
115 votes