Direction: Yasuzô Masumura

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


The Most Valuable Wife

1959 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

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The Great Villains

1968 · Movie · 93 min. · Japan

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Across Darkness

1959 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Sô Yamamura · Junko Kano · Osamu Takizawa

Plot A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

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The Precipice

1958 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Kenji Sugawara · Fujiko Yamamoto · Hitomi Nozoe · Keizo Kawasaki

Plot Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death,...

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Desperate to Love

1961 · Movie · 93 min. · Japan

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Modern Fraudulent Story: Cheat

1964 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

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Lullaby of the Earth

1976 · Movie · 111 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Mieko Harada · Natsuko Kahara · Meiko Kaji · Mihoko Nakagawa

Plot The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world,...

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The Garden of Eden

1980 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ronni Valente · Leonora Fani · Angela Goodwin · Massimo Serato

Plot A young pick-pocket meets a sheltered teenage girl at an art museum while trying to lift her wallet. He falls in love with her and lures her to deserted strip...

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The House of Wooden Blocks

1968 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Ken Ogata · Kayo Matsuo · Eiko Azusa

Plot Masumura's 40th film, for which he collaborated on the script, shows plot irrationality perhaps due to the newspaper serial original, perhaps to the adolescent behavior he portrays. The extremes of...

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Flood

1959 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shin Saburi · Ayako Wakao · Keizo Kawasaki · Junko Kano

Plot The development of a revolutionary adhesive pushes chemical engineer Sahei Sanada to the top of his company overnight. This success comes at the price of Sanada's personal life, however, as...

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Play It Cool

1970 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Mari Atsumi · Yusuke Kawazu · Akemi Negishi · Kô Nishimura

Plot Yumi (Mari Atsumi) is a 19-year-old enrolled in a dress-making school. Her mother (Negishi Akemi) has raised her by working in a bar. One day Yumi is raped by one...

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Life of a Woman

1962 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

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Two wives

1967 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Mariko Okada · Koji Takahashi · Takao Ito

Plot After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven...

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Deadline at Dawn (TV)

1980 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura · Toshiaki Kunihara

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Rentarô Mikuni · Ken Utsui

Plot Detective movie about a murder.

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The Sex Check

1968 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Michiyo Oguso · Ken Ogata · Mayumi Ogawa · Yuzo Hayakawa

Plot Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a gigolo until a chance meeting...

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A Thousand Cranes

1969 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Machiko Kyô · Mikijiro Hira · Eiko Azusa

Plot A young woman with radiation sickness from the Hiroshima attack tries to make 1000 paper cranes to get better. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.

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Beauty Is Guilty

1959 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Fujiko Yamamoto · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Hitomi Nozoe

Plot In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.

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