Yasuzo_Masumura

Yasuzō Masumura

Yasuzō Masumura

Japanese film director

Yasuzō Masumura (増村 保造, Masumura Yasuzō, 25 August 1924 – 23 November 1986) was a Japanese film director.[1][2]

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Biography

Masumura was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi.[1][2] After graduating from the law department at the University of Tokyo, he worked as an assistant director at the Daiei Film studio.[1] He later returned to university to study philosophy and graduated in 1951.[1] The following year, he won a scholarship allowing him to study film in Italy at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia under Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.[3]

Masumura returned to Japan in 1953. From 1955, he worked as a second-unit director on films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa and Daisuke Ito.[4] In 1957, he directed his own first film Kisses,[4] which caused film critic (and future director) Nagisa Ōshima to note, "a powerful irresistible force has arrived in Japanese Cinema."[5] Over the next three decades, he directed 58 films in a variety of genres.[6]

Legacy

According to film critic Shigehiko Hasumi, filmmaker Shinji Aoyama had declared Masumura "the most important filmmaker in the history of postwar Japanese cinema."[7]

Filmography

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References

  1. [1]
    "増村保造 (Masumura Yasuzō)". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  2. [2]
    "増村保造". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  3. [3]
    Rosenbaum, Jonathan (30 April 1998). "Tales of Ordinary Madness: Films by Yasuzo Masumura". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  4. [4]
    Mes, Tom (1 June 2010). "Yasuzo Masumura: Passion and Excess". Midnight Eye. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  5. [5]
    "Kisses". Independent Cinema Offices. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  6. [6]
    Parkinson, David (28 February 2006). "Yasuzo Masumura 2005". BBC. Archived from the original on 17 January 2006. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  7. [7]
    Rosenbaum, Jonathan (3 October 2021). "Dialogue Between Shigehiko Hasumi and Jonathan Rosenbaum on Howard Hawks and Yasuzo Masumura". JonathanRosenbaum.net. Retrieved 19 June 2023.

Further reading

  • "Yasuzo Masumura Filmography". Blind Beast (Booklet). Arrow Films. 2021. AV373.
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