Yasuzô Masumura

Date of Birth: 25 Aug 1924

Country: Japan

Biography: Born in Kôfu, Yamanashi. Studied Law and philosophy at the University of Tokyo and worked as an assistant director at the Daiei Film studio. Studied film in Italy at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia under Antonioni, Fellini and Visconti. From 1955, he worked as a second-unit director on films directed by Mizoguchi, Ichikawa and Ito, before directing his own first film, Kisses, in 1957. Over the next three decades, he directed 58 films in a variety of genres.

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