was a Japanese
film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
. He is known for directing the film ''
G.I. Samurai ''.
Selected filmography
Film
* ''Shayō no Omokage aka The Lonely Life'' (1967) (Fist work as a director
)
* ''Sannin no Onna Yoru no Chō aka Night Butterflies'' (1967)
* ''Onna no Iji'' (1971)
* ''
Akumaga kitarite fue wo fuku'' (1979)
* ''
G.I. Samurai'' (1979)
* ''
Ninja Wars
is a 1982 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Kōsei Saitō. It is based on Futaro Yamada's novel of the same title.
Cast
* Hiroyuki Sanada as Fuefuki Jotaro
* Noriko Watanabe as Kagaribi
* Mikio Narita as Kashin Koji
* Akira Nakao as Matsuna ...
'' (1982)
* ''Tsumiki Kuzushi'' (1983)
* ''Kizudarake no Kunshō'' (1986)
Television
* ''
Taiyō ni Hoero!
, literally ''Roar at the Sun!'', was a long-running prime-time television detective series in Japan, which ran from 1972 to 1986 for a total of 718 episodes. The lead star was Yujiro Ishihara. It also helped further the career of actors such a ...
''
* ''Oretachino Tabi'' (1976)
[
* '']Lone Wolf and Cub
is a Japanese manga series created by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima. It was serialized in Futabasha's manga magazine '' Weekly Manga Action'' from September 1970 to April 1976, with its chapters collected in 28 ' volumes. ...
'' (Second season)
* ''Choshichiro Edo Nikki
(''Choshichiro's Edo Diaries'') was a long-running prime-time television series in Japan. The title character was Matsudaira Choshichiro Nagayori, the son of Tokugawa Tadanaga. The premise of the show focuses on Tadanaga's death as a result of an ...
'' (1983-1991)
* '' Unmeitōge'' (1993)
* '' Kumokiri Nizaemon'' (1995)
* ''Mito Kōmon
is a Japanese ''jidaigeki'' or period drama that was on prime-time television from 1969 to 2011, making it the longest-running ''jidaigeki'' in Japanese television history. The title character is the historic Tokugawa Mitsukuni, former vice-' ...
series''
* '' Sengoku Jieitai: Sekigahara no Tatakai'' (2006)
* ''Chushingura Sono Otoko Ōishi Kuranosuke'' (2010)
References
External links
*
Japanese film directors
1932 births
2012 deaths
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