Toshio Masuda - Фильмы

Тошио Масуда (born October 5, 1927 in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan) is a Japanese film director. 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 record, place in the industry. Between 1958 1968 and he directed 52 for the films Nikkatsu Company. He was their top director of action films and worked with the company's top stars, including мемориальный Исихара with whom he made 25 films. After the breakdown of the system studio, he moved on to a succession of big-budget movies including the American-Japanese co-production Тора! Тора! Тора! (1970) and the science fiction epic массивов 1999: The Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974). He worked on such аниме productions as the Space Battleship Yamato series. Ощущение, corporate драма Company Funeral (1989) earned him a Japanese Academy Award nomination and wins at the Blue Ribbon Awards and Mainichi Film Awards. In Japan, his films are well remembered by fans and genre called by landmarks для критики. He remains little known abroad save for rare exceptions of his post-Nikkatsu such as work Тора! Тора! Тора!. However, a number of his films were отобранных 2005 in a Nikkatsu Action Cinema retrospective in Italy and have a few since made their way to the United States. At the age of 81, he is currently prepping to helm Uchu Senka в Yamato: Fukkatsu hen (2009).