Toshio Masuda 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 record in the industry.
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Port Arthur
Rusty Knife
Future War 198X
Space Battleship Yamato
Odin: Starlight Mutiny
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
Outlaw: Gangster VIP
Be Forever Yamato
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
Final Yamato
Tokyo Blackout
Velvet Hustler
The Champion
Zero
Red Pier
Red Handkerchief
Love: Starting on a Journey
The Perfect Game
Conflagration
Shadow Hunters
Company Executives
The Great Shogunate Battle
The Imperial Japanese Empire
Heavenly Sin
Battle Anthem
Blood Shed
Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
My Blood is the Blood of Others
Sure Death 5
High Seas Hijack
Human Revolution II
Keep Your Chin Up
Highteen Boogie
Sword and Flower
A Man with Dragon Tattoos
Monument to the Girl's Corps
The Day of Youth
The Cleanup137 credits on file
Television 5
Lone Wolf and Cub
三国志
Miyamoto Musashi
The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
Father and Son HawkAwards 2
Connected to Toshio 6
About this person
Toshio Masuda 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 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.
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