Yasuzō Masumura — Director (37)
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Sentimental Mobsters (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ぐれん隊純情派
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Kōjirō Hongō / Jun Fujimaki …
other title: ぐれん隊純情派
A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment!
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Disobedience (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
親不孝通り
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / Yōko Katsuragi …
other title: 親不孝通り
A university student wants to avenge his sister from a businessman who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the man’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.
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The Precipice (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
氷壁
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Kenji Sugawara / Fujiko Yamamoto …
other title: 氷壁
Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.
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The Cast-Off (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
氾濫
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Shin Saburi / Ayako Wakao …
other title: 氾濫
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
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The Woman Who Touched Legs (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
足にさわった女
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Machiko Kyō / Hajime Hana …
other title: 足にさわった女
Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story about her parents who killed himself and died for overwork to feel sorry about her.
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A Woman's Life (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
女の一生
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Machiko Kyō / Chieko Higashiyama …
other title: 女の一生
Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo as Kei an abused orphaned girl that eventually finds sanctuary with a wealthy family that trades goods with China and becomes a successful businesswoman. Masumura dilutes the originally intended pro-Japan propaganda elements for a more anti-war approach.
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Main Line to Terror (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
動脈列島
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Masaomi Kondo / Jirō Tamiya …
other title: 動脈列島
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.
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The Sex Check (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
セックス・チェック　第二の性
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Michiyo Yasuda / Ken Ogata …
other title: セックス・チェック　第二の性
Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a gigolo until a chance meeting with a fiery young athlete named Hiroko (Michiyo Yasuda). Realizing that she has talent as a sprinter, Miyagi sees a second chance at Olympic glory in becoming her coach. Following Miyagi’s unconventional, military-style training, Hiroko sets a record for the 100-meter dash, but her greatest hurdle proves to be a “sex check” which all professional athletes must pass.
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Love and Greed (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
「女の小箱」より夫が見た
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Jirō Tamiya / Ayako Wakao …
other title: 「女の小箱」より夫が見た / Otto ga mita 'Onna no kobako' yori …
Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's husband. As personal lives and professional careers intertwine and cross one another including a love triangle dangerously, the affair is taken up a notch following a murder.
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Superexpress (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
黒の超特急
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Jirō Tamiya / Yukiko Fuji …
other title: Le Train super-express noir / 黒の超特急 …
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express