Yasuzô Masumura

Yasuzô Masumura was born on Aug 25, 1924 in Japan. Yasuzô Masumura's big-screen debut came with Madame Butterfly directed by Carmine Gallone in 1954. Yasuzô Masumura is known for The Red Angel directed by Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao stars as Nurse Sakura Nishi and Shinsuke Ashida as Dr. Okabe. Yasuzô Masumura has got 1 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Yasuzô Masumura achieved is Blue Ribbon Awards. The upcoming new movie Yasuzô Masumura plays is Double Suicide of Sonezaki which will be released on Aug 24, 1979.

Born in Yamanashi, Japan, Yasuzô Masumura would become known as a maverick director whose main legacy was films portraying and promoting individualism, which was the opposite of the norm in Japanese society. He earned a law degree towards the end of World War II from Tokyo University, yet joined Daiei Studio as an assistant director in 1950. He pursued a second degree at Tokyo University as a literature and philosophy double major. He was the first Japanese to study at Rome, Italy's Centro Sperimentale Di Cinematografia. He returned to Japan in 1953 and worked as assistant to Kenji Mizoguchi and Kon Ichikawa. Masumura's own lead directorial debut came in 1957 with Kuchizuke, which was a commercial success and also won praise from director Oshima Nagisa. Masumura went on to become a prolific director who also continued writing on Japanese cinema. A 1996 ten-day retrospective on Masumura in Rome was attended by Michaelangelo Antonioni who was an admirer.