Toshio Masuda — Director (40)
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Highteen Boogie (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ハイティーン・ブギ
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Toshihiko Tahara / Yoshio Nomura …
other title: ハイティーン・ブギ / High Teen Boogie
Youth is energy and beauty. Racing gang Sho, Sammy and Shige have their own dream--car-racer, rock and roll and love. Sho falls in love with Momoko but disagreed by his father; Sammy loves rock and roll; Shige dreams of becoming a car-racer though his right fist is injured. As they are giving out their sparks of life, they are also learning the value of life.
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Velvet Hustler (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
紅の流れ星
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Tetsuya Watari / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 紅の流れ星
A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the girlfriend of the murdered man. They develop a strange bond while unbeknown to Goro, another hitman is after him for the job he did in Tokyo.
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Tokyo Blackout (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
首都消失
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūko Natori / Shinji Yamashita …
other title: 首都消失
Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome-shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is totally blocked and isolated from other parts of the world. The temperature inside the cloud is slowly increasing. The Soviet Pacific fleet is getting closer. The U.S. is forcing Japan to form a new government. Scientists and research workers outside Tokyo have to race against time to find out how to get through the cloud in order to rescue the 12,000,000+ lives in Tokyo and the fate of the country.
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Odin: Starlight Mutiny (1985) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
オーディーン　光子帆船スターライト
director: Toshio Masuda / Takeshi Shirato … actor: Keiko Han / Toshio Furukawa …
other title: Odin, la nave della salvezza / Odín …
Odin centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on an historic interstellar test flight. They are intercepted by what seems to be a wrecked spaceship only to find that it contains a lone survivor; a young woman named Sara Cyanbaker. Unknown to the crew at this time, a mechanized space fleet approaches Earth and a scout vessel from that fleet was responsible for the destruction of Sara's ship.
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Red Pier (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
赤い波止場
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Mie Kitahara …
other title: 赤い波止場
Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.
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The Day of Youth (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
青年の樹
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Mie Kitahara …
other title: 青年の樹
At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities despite the wishes of his father who wants him to assist strengthen the gang against the Kawano group. Takema's classmate, Akiko, is the daughter of Eiko who operates a restaurant, and through her he obtains a lodging in the house of Shiu, a dancing mistress. The students enjoy their life, but most have their troubles. Sakamoto works as a laborer on the docks to help pay for his schooling, and Akiko worries over the relationship between her mother and Sakurai, a corrupt politician, suspected to be involved in graft over jet aircraft.
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A Man with Dragon Tattoos (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
花と竜
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 花と竜
In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, dreams are instilled into the lives of many across Japan. A vigorous young man with a look of fearless determination, sets foot on the northern part of Kyushu, an area where Yakuza thrived. His name is Kingoro Tamai (Yujiro Ishihara). With plans to travel the world, Kingoro worked diligently at a coal mine. His loyalty and hard work earned the respect of his peers, his courage won the heart of the beautiful Mon (Ruriko Asaoka), and his success evoked jealousy in his enemies.
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Man of a Stormy Era (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
昭和のいのち
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 昭和のいのち
The early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered financial crisis and famine, women worked under intolerable employment conditions, and political corruption was a major issue. Out of fear that the great nation would soon fall, a group of young patriotic men gathered to lay out plans to assassinate the crooked politicians. One of these young terrorists was Shinsuke Kusaka. He receives orders to kill the Prime Minister.
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Red Handkerchief (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
赤いハンカチ
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: Le mouchoir rouge / 赤いハンカチ
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.
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Zero (1984) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
零戦燃ゆ
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Jun Hashizume / Yu Hayami …
other title: Kampfgeschwader Zero / Zero, l'enfer du pacifique …
Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don't qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.
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Sure Death 5 (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
必殺！5 黄金の血
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Makoto Fujita / Kunihiko Mitamura …
other title: 必殺！5 黄金の血
Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterious band of murderers wage a bloody battle against three deadly assassins.
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Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
宇宙戦艦ヤマト 新たなる旅立ち
director: Toshio Masuda / Takeshi Shirato … actor: Kei Tomiyama / Yoko Asagami …
other title: Yamato: il nuovo viaggio / Uchuu Senkan Yamato - Aratanaru Tabidachi …
Time to ease up ... not! Although the Yamato's crew has witnessed the end of the long, hard-fought Comet Empire War, a peaceful future will have to wait. While Dessler gathers together the shattered remnants of his Gamilus Empire, new forces are at work in the universe that could augur in another conflict. Seems the Black Star Empire has invaded Dessler's homeworld and is decimating it, all the while gathering power for its war machine.
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Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
さらば宇宙戦艦ヤマト 愛の戦士たち
director: Toshio Masuda / Leiji Matsumoto actor: Kei Tomiyama / Yoko Asagami …
other title: Addio Yamato / Patrulha Estelar - Cometa Império …
The Yamato and her crew face the onslaught of the Comet Empire, a civilization from the Andromeda Galaxy who seek to conquer Earth, led by Prince Zordar. They have harnessed a comet and is using its terrible power to unleash destruction upon its rivals and inferiors... which are in fact everyone. The Space Battleship Yamato heads back into action. But this time, it shall not return, and much of the Yamato crew have signed on for their last voyage.
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Space Battleship Yamato (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
宇宙戦艦ヤマト
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Gorō Naya / Kei Tomiyama …
other title: Corazzata spaziale Yamato / Patrulha Estrelar …
When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic travel and set off on a mission to retrieve a neutralizer that will eradicate the radiation from Earth's atmosphere.