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Toshio Masuda
Director 98 years old

Toshio Masuda

Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan

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... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

12 titles
Yamato yo towa ni

Yamato yo towa ni

Leiji Matsumoto, Toshio Masuda 1980 2h 25m

The Black Nebula Empire attacks Earth and threatens to blow up the planet with a bomb they placed on Earth if counter attacked. Earths hopes rest on the Yamato crew as they go to the Black Nebula Planet and try to find a way to difuse the bomb before it's too late.

Uchû senkan Yamato: Aratanaru tabidachi

Uchû senkan Yamato: Aratanaru tabidachi

Toshio Masuda, Yoshinobu Nishizaki 1979 1h 33m

Time to ease up ... not! Although the Yamato's crew has witnessed the end of the long, hard-fought Comet Empire War, a peaceful future will have to wait. While Dessler gathers together the shattered remnants of his Gamilus Empire, new forces are at work in the universe that could augur in another conflict.

Saraba uchû senkan Yamato: Ai no senshitachi

Saraba uchû senkan Yamato: Ai no senshitachi

Leiji Matsumoto, Toshio Masuda 1978 2h 31m

The Yamato and her crew face the onslaught of the Comet Empire, a civilization from the Andromeda Galaxy who seek to conquer Earth, led by Prince Zordar. They have harnessed a comet and is using its terrible power to unleash destruction upon its rivals and inferiors... which are in fact everyone.

Uchû senkan Yamato

Uchû senkan Yamato

Toshio Masuda 1977 2h 15m

When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic travel and set off on a mission to retrieve a neutralizer that will eradicate the radiation from Earth's atmosphere.

Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen

Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen

Toshio Masuda 1974 1h 54m 5.0

A scientist fears that the prophecies of Nostradamus, including the end of all life on Earth, are coming true one after another.

Kage gari: Hoero taihô

Kage gari: Hoero taihô

Toshio Masuda 1972 1h 29m

The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal cannon in this sequel to Toshio Masuda's bloody adaptation of the manga by Takao Saito.

Kage gari

Kage gari

Toshio Masuda 1972 1h 30m

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters".

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Kinji Fukasaku, Richard Fleischer 1970 2h 24m 7.6

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!

Burai yori daikanbu

Burai yori daikanbu

Toshio Masuda 1968 1h 34m 6.5

YAKUZA GANGSTER THRILLER.

Kurenai no nagareboshi

Kurenai no nagareboshi

Toshio Masuda 1967 1h 37m

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the girlfriend of the murdered man.

Sabita naifu

Sabita naifu

Toshio Masuda 1958 1h 30m

Two friends who witnessed an organized crime murder are threatened by the local mob into keeping quiet.

Akai hatoba

Akai hatoba

Toshio Masuda 1958 1h 39m 6.5

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.

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