Toshio Masuda (director) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Toshio Masuda (director) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Toshio Masuda (舛ç"° 利雄, Masuda Toshio, born October 5, 1927) 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 officeâ€"a second

place record in the industry. Between 1958 and 1968 he directed 52

films for the Nikkatsu Company. He was their top director of action

films and worked with the company's top stars, including Yujiro

Ishihara with whom he made 25 films. After the breakdown of the studio

system, he moved on to a succession of big-budget movies including the

American-Japanese co-production Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and the

science fiction epic Catastrophe 1999: The Prophecies of Nostradamus

(1974). He worked on such anime productions as the Space Battleship

Yamato series. His corporate drama Company Funeral (1989) earned him a

Japanese Academy Award nomination and wins at the Blue Ribbon Awards

and Mainichi Film Awards. In Japan, his films are well remembered by

fans and called genre landmarks by critics. He remains little known

abroad save for rare exceptions of his post-Nikkatsu work such as

Tora! Tora! Tora!. However, a number of his films were screened in a

2005 Nikkatsu Action Cinema retrospective in Italy and a few have

since made their way to the United States. In 2009, he helped produce

Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection.Toshio Masuda was born in Kobe,

Japan. His father was a seaman. He enrolled in a technical training

school, however, his mindset did not mesh with the school's military

indoctrination and he was expelled in July 1945. He next attended the

Osaka University of Foreign Studies (now Osaka University) where he

specialized in Russian literature. There he became enamoured with

French cinema which led him away from Russian grammar and towards a

career in the film industry. He thought he would have been bored as a

salaryman and that filmmaking would better suit him but suggested he

probably would not have followed through had his friends not sought

similar careers. After graduating in 1949, he moved to Tokyo to study

screenwriting at the Shintoho Studio's Scenario Academy.In 1950, the

Shintoho Company hired Toshio Masuda. He worked as screenwriter and an

assistant director under Umetsugu Inoue, Nobuo Nakagawa and Mikio

Naruse. He served as 2nd AD on Naruse's Ginza Cosmetics (1951) and

Mother (1952). Inoue became a mentor figure to Masuda. They began

collaborating on scripts and Masuda moved in with Inoue. He also wrote

rough drafts for a number of Inuoe's scripts.
Toshio Masuda (director) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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