Yasuzo Masumura

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Yasuzo Masumura - what members say

Kisses review by chungking from London

A light touch from Masumura 28 April 2008
...hope in. A small and wonderful film. This film shows a subtle side to director Yasuzo Masumura. Not many of his films are available here but ‘Red Angel’ dealing with the horr... Read customer review

Blind Beast on DVD (1969)
Starring: Eiji Funakoshi, Mako Midori, Noriko Sengoku
Director: Yasuzo Masumura
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A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model and imprisons her in his studio - a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in a world where sight is replaced by touch...

51% from 464 members

Red Angel on DVD (1966)
Starring: Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yusuke Kawazu
Director: Yasuzo Masumura
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Set against the Sino-Japanese war of 1939, a young angelic military nurse is raped by her patients and sent to the front line for daring to register a complaint. Posted to a rag-tag demoralised unti, she falls in love with an impotent morphine-addicted surgeon. Together the pair seek solace in each ..read more »

53% from 759 members

Irezumi on DVD (1966)
Starring: Ayako Wakao, Akio Hasegawa, Gaku Yamamoto
Director: Yasuzo Masumura
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When a young girl is seduced and has a spider tattooed on her back; she herself becomes a predatory monster, taking revenge on every man who has shared her bed.

59% from 245 members

Manji on DVD (1964)
Starring: Ayako Wakao, Kyoko Kishida, Yusuke Kawazu
Director: Yasuzo Masumura, Yasuko Masumura
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Acclaimed Japanese New Wave director Yasuzo Masumura takes on the intricacies of love in his acclaimed film MANJI. When a dissatisfied, bored wife meets a mysterious, sexy woman in an art class, the two embark on a passionate affair. Soon, the unhappy wife's husband and her new girlfriend's ..read more »

53% from 139 members

Kisses on DVD (1957)
Starring: Kawaguchi Hiroshi, Nozoe Hitomi
Director: Yasuzo Masumura
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Masmura's debut feature with its stripped down narrative and handheld camerawork sent a shock wave through Japanese cinema in much the same manner as Godard in Europe. With its liberated camera and even more liberated protagonists, this is the film which caused Oshima to say of Masumura "a powerful ..read more »

58% from 94 members

Hanzo The Razor (3 discs)
Starring: Shintaro Katsu
Director: Yasuzo Masumura, Kenji Misumi, Yoshio Inoue
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Collection of three samurai epics, including SWORD OF JUSTICE, THE SNARE and WHO'S GOT THE GOLD? The HANZO films skilfully blend traditional Japanese swordplay with sexploitation elements, creating an inimitable style that became an instant cult phenomenon when they were released in the early seventies.

62% from 147 members
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Blind Beast - 2.5 stars
Red Angel - 2.5 stars
Irezumi - 3.0 stars
Manji - 2.5 stars
Kisses - 3.0 stars

Hanzo The Razor - 3.0 stars
Irezumi - 3.0 stars
Kisses - 3.0 stars
Manji - 2.5 stars
Red Angel - 2.5 stars

Blind Beast - 2.5 stars
Red Angel - 2.5 stars
Manji - 2.5 stars
Kisses - 3.0 stars
Irezumi - 3.0 stars

Shintaro Katsu - 4 times - show films
Ayako Wakao - 3 times - show films
Eiji Funakoshi - 2 times - show films
Yusuke Kawazu - 2 times - show films
Reiko Fujiwara - 1 times - show films

Kenji Misumi - 4 times - show films
Yoshio Inoue - 4 times - show films
Yasuko Masumura - 1 times - show films