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Tag Archives: Yasuzô Masumura
Hoodlum Soldier: Rebel in the Army AKA Shin heitai yakuza: Kasen (1972) Yasuzô Masumura, Shintarô Katsu, Takahiro Tamura, Michiyo Ohkusu
On the Chinese front, Kisaburo, a young soldier, falls in love with a Chinese spy. Read More »
Thousand Cranes AKA Senba zuru (1969) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Machiko Kyô, Mikijirô Hira
The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher Read More »
Stolen Pleasure AKA Tadare (1962) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Jirô Tamiya, Yaeko Mizutani
Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adaptation by Kaneto Shindo, Masumura Yasuzo directs. Read More »
Two Wives AKA Tsuma futari (1967) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Mariko Okada, Kôji Takahashi
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate Read More »
Blind Beast AKA Môjû (1969) Yasuzô Masumura, Eiji Funakoshi, Mako Midori, Noriko Sengoku
A blind sculpter kidnaps a beautiful young model and takes her back to his home. Read More »
The Garden of Eden AKA Eden no sono (1980) Yasuzô Masumura, Ronni Valente, Leonora Fani, Angela Goodwin
A young pick-pocket meets a sheltered teenage girl at an art museum while trying to lift her wallet. Read More »
The Black Test Car (1962) Jirô Tamiya, Junko Kanô, Eiji Funakoshi, Yasuzô Masumura
Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch. Read More »
A Wife Confesses (1961) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Eitarô Ozawa
Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Read More »
The Music (1972) Yasuzô Masumura, Noriko Kurosawa, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Chôei Takahashi
A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups. Read More »
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973) Yasuzô Masumura, Shintarô Katsu, Keiko Aikawa, Kazuko Inano, Keizô Kanie
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. Read More »
Chijin no ai / Love for an Idiot (1967) Yasuzô Masumura, Michiyo Ohkusu, Shôichi Ozawa, Masakazu Tamura, Drama, Erotic
A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.
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Seisakus Wife (1965) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Takahiro Tamura, Nobuo Chiba, Drama, Romance, War
Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. Okane, a beautiful girl from a poor family, must serve as a mistress to a much older rich man. Read More »
Manji / Swastika (1964) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Kyôko Kishida, Eiji Funakoshi, Drama, Romance
Sonoko, a bored housewife entering middle age, met a young girl, Mitsuko, at a private school of art. Read More »
Koshoku ichidai otoko / A Lustful Man (1961) Yasuzô Masumura, Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Tamao Nakamura, Comedy, Drama
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. Read More »