Yasuzô Masumura

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Kei, a house servant, is kicked out after an altercation and is then adopted by a nearby family.
One of many adaptations of “Onna no isshō”, this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.Read More »

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The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she’s now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair.Read More »

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The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experimentsRead More »

Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.Read More »

Masumura’s 44th film capitalizes on the student unrest of the late sixties as background for a story about a ‘liberated’ woman. Cruelly nymphomaniac, Michi is described as an ‘independent child of the times’, with no family obligations, no taste for housekeeping, and no need of a man to support her. Her sex mania and Nobuyuki’s masochism become less than plausible, and the other characters are all too superficially delineated to be engaging.Read More »

A young delinquent wants to avenge his sister from a college student who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the student’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.Read More »

Another early Masumura with Wakao Ayako, based on the novel by Blue Sky Maiden’s (青空娘) Genji Keita. This time we have Wakao as the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, whose two elder sisters have married the two elder sons of the Mihara family. While Kawaguchi Hiroshi plays the third, unmarried son… so you can imagine the ensuing events. Maybe not as much fun as Ichikawa Kon’s Goodbye, Hello (あなたと私の合言葉　さようなら、今日は), also made at Daiei around the same time with the same leads and a similar story, but Masumura can do no wrong either.Read More »

In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.Read More »

Psychological action drama about the activities of a corrupt lawyer.Read More »