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Yasuzo Masumura
was a Japanese film director. Biography Masumura was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi. After dropping out of a law course at the University of Tokyo he worked as an assistant director at the Daiei Film studio, later returning to university to study philosophy; he graduated in 1949. He then won a scholarship allowing him to study film in Italy at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia under Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. 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, before directing his own first film, ''Kisses'', in 1957. Over the next three decades, he directed 58 films in a variety of genres. Legacy Japanese film critic Shigehiko Hasumi said, "Young and influential filmmaker Shinji Aoyama was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, composer, film critic, and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Canne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Yang Kwei Fei
is a 1955 Japanese historical film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It was a co-production between Daiei Film and Shaw & Sons, Hong Kong (later Shaw Brothers). It is one of Mizoguchi's two colour films, the other being '' Tales of the Taira Clan'', made the same year. Plot Emperor Xuanzong of Tang retired from the throne of the Tang dynasty, gazes at a statue of the woman he loved who has died. He sadly reminisces about their relationship. Recently widowed, a depressed Xuanzong is uninterested in governing or affairs of state. He spends his days playing his lute, composing music, and enjoying life's pleasures. His ministers have tried unsuccessfully to interest him in the most beautiful women in the kingdom without success. They hope that a new concubine will help him to get over his depression over the late empress. The Yang family offers their daughter to the emperor who barely notices her. General An Lushan happens upon a serving girl Yuahan Kwei-Fei/Yang Guifei in the kitch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Angel
is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Yasuzo Masumura. It tells the story of a young Japanese nurse on the front lines in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It is based on a 1966 novel of the same name by Yoriyoshi Arima ( ja). Plot Sakura Nishi is a Japanese nurse in China during the Second Sino-Japanese war. Initially she works in a ward of chronically ill men. She is raped by a patient, Sakamoto. She reports the rape and Sakamoto is sent to the front lines. Nishi is sent to a field hospital. The hospital is overwhelmed and has too few doctors and not enough medicine to treat all the patients. Nishi works with Doctor Okabe. Sakamoto comes in, shot in the belly and dying. Okabe refuses to provide him with a blood transfusion, reasoning that Sakamoto is beyond saving, but Nishi pleads with him. Okabe tries to save Sakamoto on condition that Nishi will come to his room that night. Sakamoto dies, but Nishi goes to Okabe's room. However, Okabe just wants to talk to Nishi and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hoodlum Soldier
is a Japanese film directed by Yasuzo Masumura. ''The Hoodlum Soldier'' was the first of a series of nine films that followed two soldiers, Kisaburo Omiya (Shintaro Katsu), a former yakuza who has become a soldier, and Arita (Takahiro Tamura), an intellectual from a good family who has deliberately failed the officer examination. Plot The story is presented as a voiced-over narrative by Arita (Takahiro Tamura), speaking long after the events of the film. In a remote army base in Manchuria, near the Soviet border, long-serving corporal Arita hates the military and looks forward to the day he may leave. Although a university graduate, he has several times deliberately failed the exam for promotion and thus remains a corporal after four years' service. The base commander asks him to take charge of Omiya (Shintaro Katsu), a soldier who responds poorly to military discipline. Discipline at the camp is imposed through beatings, with non-commissioned officers being able to freely punc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Report
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life Of A Woman
is a 1953 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindo was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include '' Children of Hiroshima'', '' The Naked Island'', '' Onibaba'', '' Kuroneko'' an .... Cast References External links * 1953 films Japanese drama films 1950s Japanese-language films 1953 drama films Films directed by Kaneto Shindo Films based on short fiction Films based on works by Guy de Maupassant Japanese black-and-white films 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Test Car
''Black Test Car'' (黒の試走車#映画, Kuro no shisō-sha)) is a 1962 Japanese crime thriller film directed by Yasuzo Masumura, co-written by Kazuo Funahashi and Yoshihiro Ishimatsu, and based on the novel of the same name by Toshiyuki Kajiyama. Plot After finding out that the media got wind of their latest car model's accident, car company Tiger Motors decides to get information on Yamato Motors' latest car model through corporate espionage. Asahina, a member of the Tiger's planning department, has his girlfriend Masako entertain Mawatari, head of Yamato's planning department and former colonel in the Manchukuo Imperial Army, in order to get information about Yamato's car model. When the data Tiger collects is deemed inconclusive, head of Tiger's planning department Onoda pressures Yamato's chief of design into giving Tiger the specs of their car model, threatening to reveal to the police that he accepted a kickback. Mori agrees and gives Onoda the specs of the design of Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Wife Confesses
is a 1961 Japanese film directed by Yasuzo Masumura. It is a courtroom drama about a young wife on trial for murdering her older husband after cutting his rope whilst mountaineering. Cast * Hideo Takamatsu was a Japanese actor from Nankoku, Kōchi Prefecture. Takamatsu appeared in more than 120 films between 1948 and 2007. Profile In 1951, he signed his contract with Daiei film company. Two years later, Takamatsu made his film debut with ''Ikare ... as Kasai References External links * 1961 films 1961 drama films 1960s legal films Japanese drama films Films directed by Yasuzo Masumura 1960s Japanese films {{1960s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A False Student
is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Yasuzō Masumura. It is based on the story ''Gisho no toki'' by Japanese writer Kenzaburō Ōe. Plot For the fourth time in a row, Hikoichi has failed to pass the exams to enter a prestigious university. He lies to his mother, a shop owner and widow who hopes for a brighter future for her son, that he passed the exams, and walks around in a student's uniform, pretending to be a freshman. When student activist leader Soratani is arrested by the police, he mistakes Hikoichi for a fellow student and orders him to bring the news of his arrest to his zengakuren comrades. Hikoichi, eager to be accepted by the activists as one of them, and trying to impress student Mutsuko, participates in a rally where many protestors are arrested. After his quick dismissal by the police, who realise that he is neither a student nor a political agitator, the activists suspect Hikoichi to be an informant. Cast * Ayako Wakao as Mutsuko * Jerry Fujio as Hikoic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afraid To Die
is a 1960 Japanese yakuza film directed by Yasuzo Masumura and starring Yukio Mishima. Cast * Yukio Mishima – Takeo Asahina * Ayako Wakao – Yoshie Koizumi * Keizo Kawasaki – Shoichi Koizumi * Eiji Funakoshi – Susumu Aikawa * Takashi Shimura – Gohei Hirayama * Yaeko Mizutani – Masako Katori * Michiko Ono – Ayako Takatsu Theme song "Karakkaze Yarō" (released by King Records on March 20, 1960, in Japan) :Lyrics and vocals: Yukio Mishima :Music and guitar: Shichirō Fukazawa was a Japanese author and guitarist whose 1960 short story ''Fūryū mutan'' ("Tale of an Elegant Dream") caused a nationwide uproar and led to an attempt by an ultranationalist to assassinate the president of the magazine that published it. B ... :Arrangement: Koji Eguchi The soundtrack is now on CD. References External links *Japanese movie database からっ風野郎 1960 films Japanese crime drama films 1960 crime drama films Films directed by Yasuzo Masumura Daiei Film fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman's Testament
is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kon Ichikawa and Yasuzo Masumura. It was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot This is a series of three stories revolving around women. The first story is about a young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. She has what seems like a good plan for a strong financial future; she is investing in a company on the one hand, and on the other, taking action to snare the son of the company's owner in marriage. In the second story, a young woman is employed by a real estate agent in order to convince male clients to invest in worthless property, usually by bathing with them. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no financial worries. But when she falls in love with a forger, she opts to wait for him after he is sent to prison. This causes trouble for her in family and society, but she ignores them despite the pressure. Cast ;Episode 1 (directed by Yasuzo Masumura) * Ayako Wakao - Kimi * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giants And Toys
is a 1958 Japanese satirical comedy film directed by Yasuzo Masumura and starring Hiroshi Kawaguchi. Plot Candy manufacturer World competes with companies Giant and Apollo over caramel sales. While looking for a poster girl for a new promotional campaign, chief of advertising Goda discovers Kyoko, a working class girl with bad teeth, and makes her World's mascot, dressed up in a space suit and wielding a ray gun. Meanwhile, Goda's assistant Nishi, at the instruction of his boss, has an affair with Apollo's advertising lady Kurahashi to learn about their campaign plans. As Kyoko's popularity rises to unprecedented heights, the young woman is less and less inclined to go along with World's plans for her, working on a career as a singer and dancer. After Kyoko terminates their contract, Goda, cracking up and sick from professional stress to the point of coughing up blood, wants to take over her role. Nishi, worried about his boss's health, stops him and takes over the role of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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