Zenzō Matsuyama was a Japanese screenwriter and film director. He was born in Kobe and grew up in Yokohama. After leaving school, he began training to become a doctor but dropped out of medical school to take up a career in films. In 1948 he became an assistant director at Shochiku studios.
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Yearning
Black River
Proof of the Man
Moment of Terror
I Will Buy You
Tokyo 1958
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
The Other Woman
Fountainhead
The Tattered Wings
Beautiful Days
The Wiser Age
The Lovelorn Geisha
Our Marriage
Happiness of Us Alone
The First Kiss
Mother Country
The Black Battlefront Kidnappers
Eyes of Children
Come Marry Me
The Last Judgment
Good Luck to These Two
The Twilight Years
Mother
Different Sons
River of Forever
Tokyo Bay
Futari dake no toride
Foxes of Chironup
Jesus is My Boss
This Is Noriko
Eternity of Love
The Youth and His Amulet
Could I But Live
Four Sisters
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Fushoku no kōzōAwards 2
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About this person
Zenzō Matsuyama was a Japanese screenwriter and film director. He was born in Kobe and grew up in Yokohama. After leaving school, he began training to become a doctor but dropped out of medical school to take up a career in films. In 1948 he became an assistant director at Shochiku studios. With the support of Keisuke Kinoshita, he also began writing film scripts. His first filmed script was Kojo no tsuki, based on the song "Kōjō no Tsuki", filmed in 1954. In 1955 he married actress Hideko Takamine. He made his debut as a director with a film called Na mo naku mazushiku utsukushiku in 1961. He continued to work as a scriptwriter for films like Proof of the Man as well as a director. He also wrote the lyrics for a song "Ippon no enpitsu" for Hibari Misora.
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