Yasuzō Masumura — Director (60)
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The Garden of Eden (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Eden no sono
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Ronni Valente / Leonora Fani …
other title: 伊甸园 / Eden no sono …
A young pick-pocket meets a sheltered teenage girl at an art museum while trying to lift her wallet. He falls in love with her and lures her to deserted strip of beach where he pretends his stolen motorbike has broken down and they are stranded. An unlikely romance follows.
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An Ode to Yakuza (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB
やくざ絶唱
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Shintarō Katsu / Naoko Ohtani …
other title: 야쿠자 제쇼오 / やくざ絶唱 …
Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her to college and turning her into a perfect young lady. He's extremely fond of Akane. His fondness for her goes beyond how he feels about his mistress, Kanae. And yet, Akane feels alone. Now, a new tutor comes into her life that seems to have taken a liking to her...
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Superexpress (1964) WikiData IMDb TMDB
黒の超特急
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Jirō Tamiya / Yukiko Fuji …
other title: 검정 초특급 / 黒の超特急 …
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express
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Ashi ni sawatta onna (1960) IMDb TMDB Douban
足にさわった女
director: 增村保造 actor: 京町子 / 船越英二 …
other title: 碰脚的女人 / 足にさわった女 …
Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story about her parents who killed himself and died for overwork to feel sorry about her.
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Band of Pure-Hearted Hoodlums (1963) IMDb TMDB Douban
ぐれん隊純情派
director: 增村保造 actor: 本乡功次郎 / 藤卷润 …
other title: 愚连队纯情派 / Gurentai junjyôha …
A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment!
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Onna no issho (1962) IMDb TMDB Douban
女の一生
director: 増村保造 actor: 更多...
other title: 女人的一生 / 女の一生 …
Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo as Kei an abused orphaned girl that eventually finds sanctuary with a wealthy family that trades goods with China and becomes a successful businesswoman. Masumura dilutes the originally intended pro-Japan propaganda elements for a more anti-war approach.
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Hyoheki (1958) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
氷壁
director: 增村保造 actor: 菅原謙二 / 山本富士子 …
other title: 冰壁 / 氷壁 …
Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.
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Disobedience (1958) IMDb TMDB Douban
親不孝通り
director: 増村保造 actor: 川口浩 / 桂木洋子
other title: 親不孝通り / 亲不孝路 …
A university student wants to avenge his sister from a businessman who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the man’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.
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Tadare (1962) IMDb TMDB Douban
爛
director: 増村保造 actor: 若尾文子 / Jiro Tamiya …
other title: 烂 / 爛 …
High-end cabaret hostess Masuko discovers her long-term lover is actually married. Determined to secure her future, she aggressively manipulates him into divorcing his wife, only for their new marriage to be destabilized by the arrival of her young niece.
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Play It Cool (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
でんきくらげ
director: 增村保造 actor: 渥美真理 / 川津祐介 …
other title: 海蛰传记 / でんきくらげ …
This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.
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A Lustful Man (1961) IMDb TMDB Douban
好色一代男
★ 6.7 (7 ratings) director: 增村保造 actor: 市川雷藏 / 若尾文子 …
other title: 好色一代男 / 西鹤一代男 …
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women, feeding his fascination and experience. As Yonosuke's salacious behavior brings much cause for shame to the family, his father eventually breaks relations with him. Expelled from the family, 19-year-old Yonosuke embarks on a pilgrimage of lust, traveling far and wide to acquaint himself with women of all walks.