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Toshio Masuda

1927–2026 · Japanese film director

Toshio Masuda was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. 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. Masuda was their top director of action films and worked with the company's top stars, including Yujiro Ishihara with whom he made 25 films.

Toshio Masuda, in order

  1. 1958 Red Quay: directed
  2. 1958 Rusty Knife: directed · audiences 68% · streaming on Criterion Channel
  3. 1958 The Perfect Game: directed · streaming on Criterion Channel
  4. 1959 We Live Today: directed
  5. 1960 Man at the Bullfight: directed
  6. 1960 The Poem Of The Blue Star: directed
  7. 1961 Where the Horizon Meets the Sun: directed
  8. 1962 Flower and Dragon: directed
  9. 1962 Hitoribotchi no futari daga: directed
  10. 1962 Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi: directed, wrote
  11. 1962 Ue o muite arukô: directed
  12. 1964 Red Handkerchief: directed
  13. 1965 Showdown in the Red Valley: directed, wrote
  14. 1965 Taking The Castle: directed
  15. 1966 Challenge for Glory: directed, wrote
  16. 1966 Kill the Night Rose: directed
  17. 1967 The Man of Victory: directed
  18. 1967 Velvet Hustler: directed, wrote
  19. 1968 Outlaw: Gangster VIP: directed
  20. 1969 Daikanbu Nagurikomi: directed
  21. 1969 Exiled to Hell: directed, wrote
  22. 1969 The Cleanup: directed
  23. 1970 Tora! Tora! Tora!: directed · critics 59%, audiences 81% · streaming on Prime Video
  24. 1971 Challenge at Dawn: directed
  25. 1971 Law of the Outlaw: directed
  26. 1972 Shadow Hunters: directed · streaming on Plex
  27. 1972 Sword and Flower: directed
  28. 1974 Orenochi wa Taninnochi: directed
  29. 1974 Prophecies of Nostradamus: directed
  30. 1974 Space Battleship Yamato (TV series): directed
  31. 1975 Tôkyô-wan enjô: wrote · directed by Katsumune Ishida
  32. 1977 Space Battleship Yamato: directed
  33. 1978 Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato: directed, produced
  34. 1978 Space Battleship Yamato II (TV series): wrote · directed by Noboru Ishiguro
  35. 1979 Triton of the Sea: directed
  36. 1979 Yamato: The New Voyage (TV movie): produced · directed by Leiji Matsumoto
  37. 1980 Be Forever Yamato: directed, wrote
  38. 1980 The Battle of Port Arthur: directed
  39. 1982 Future War 1986: directed
  40. 1982 High Teen Boogie: directed
  41. 1982 The Imperial Japanese Empire: directed
  42. 1983 Battle Anthem: directed
  43. 1983 Final Yamato: directed
  44. 1983 Loving: directed
  45. 1984 Zero: directed
  46. 1985 Love: Take Off: directed
  47. 1985 Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight: directed, wrote
  48. 1987 This Story of Love: directed
  49. 1987 Tokyo Blackout: directed
  50. 1989 Shaso: directed
  51. 1991 Earthshaking Event: directed
  52. 1991 Sure Death 5: directed
  53. 1991 The Great Shogunate Battle: directed
  54. 1992 Heavenly Sin: directed
  55. 2009 Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection: produced · directed by Yoshinobu Nishizaki