Masahiro Makino
Directing · Born Feb 29, 1908 · Died Oct 29, 1993 (85) · Kyoto, Japan
Masahiro Makino (マキノ 雅弘, Makino Masahiro, February 29, 1908 - October 29, 1993) was a Japanese film director. He directed more than 260 films, primarily in the chanbara and yakuza genres. His real name was Masatada (正唯), but he took the stage name Masahiro, the kanji for which he changed multiple times (including 雅広, 正博, and 雅裕). Masahiro Makino was born in Kyoto, the eldest son of the film director and producer Shōzō Makino, who is often called the father of Japanese cinema. As a youth he acted in over 100 films before debuting as a film director in 1926 at age 18. His critically acclaimed nihilistic jidaigeki such as Roningai (1928) made him one of the top Japanese film directors, but his way of shooting films quickly also earned him detractors. For instance, the total time it took to shoot the 1936 film Edo no Ka Oshō was only 28 hours.The critic Sadao Yamane, however, has argued that this fast filming practice also contributed to Makino's speedy, rhythmic film style. Rhythm and tempo are important to his films, and so in his jidaigeki, fight scenes like in Kettō Takadanobaba (1937) could seem like dances, or entire sequences, like in Awa no Odoriko (1941), could be filled with dance. He made musicals like Singing Lovebirds (1939) and even his wartime propaganda films like Hanako-san and Ahen senso (both 1943) could have Busby Berkeley-like musical numbers. After the war, he helmed such popular jidaigeki series as Jirōchō Sangokushi and such ninkyō eiga series as Nihon Kyōkaku-den. He directed his last film in 1972, the retirement film for Junko Fuji, completing a filmography that totaled over 260 films and included films of many genres.
Directed
The Shin Hasegawa Series
1972
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
19726.8
The Path of the King
19716.5
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny
19707.0
Born Fighter
19709.0
Peonies And Dragons
19707.0
Woman Boss
19708.0
Bad Reputation: Showdown of the Best
19698.0
Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
1969
The Domain: Flower and Dragon
196910.0
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
19697.7
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
19686.5
Rogue
19687.0
Histories of the Chivalrous
19688.0
The Domain: Severed Relations
196810.0
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
196710.0
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
19677.5
The Chivalrous Life
19678.5
The Domain: White Blade
19678.0
Debt of Honor
1966
The Domain: Duel at Thunder Gate
19669.0
Japan's Most Chivalrous
196610.0
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
19669.0
One Man's Chivalry
1965
The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
19658.0
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
19657.5
Chocho and Yuji's Marital Goodness
1965
Irogotoshi harudanji
1965
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
19654.8
The Domain
19646.5
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
196410.0
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
19638.0
The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
19636.5
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
196310.0
Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
19637.0
Tattoo of Love
1963
53 Stages of Action
1963
A Revengeful Raid
19625.8
Yakuza Official
1962
Lady Sen and Hideyori
19628.0
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
1962
The Man Who Came to the Harbor Festival
1961
Works of the Fish Man
19616.0
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
19617.0
Mask of the Moon
1961
Edo Purebreed
19619.0
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
19607.0
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
19606.0
Runway to Hell
19607.0
Yakuza of Ina
19607.0
An Actor's Revenge
19596.0
Evil Man of Edo
19598.0
Echo in the Mountains
19596.0
Whirlwind Magistrate
19596.0
Goblin in Stirrups
19596.0
Fighting Disposition
19587.0
Kanbei's Bargain Sale
19587.0
The Traveling Ruffian
19586.0
Fearless Opposition
1958
Bull's Eye of Love
19586.6
The Ornery Entrance to the Sumo Ring with a Sword
1957
Temple of Revenge
1957
Street of Ronin
19576.5
Pure-Hearted Unit
19578.0
Kin Toyama-san's Detective Story: Man in the Shadows
1956
Eacape of Fear
1956
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
19558.0
Jirochô yûkyôden: Akiba no himatsuri
1955
Daikichi Konomura
1954
Jirocho in Disgrace
19549.0
Yakuza bayashi
195410.0
Last of the Wild Ones
19548.0
My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men
1954
Utsukushiki taka
1954
Jirocho's New Year
19549.0
Jirocho, the Hunted
19538.0
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
19538.0
Zoku Tange Sazen
195310.0
Tange Sazen
19537.0
Jirocho's Home-Coming
195310.0
Her Captive Gamblers
19539.0
The Last Embrace
195310.0
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
195310.0
Night in Hawaii
19537.0
Jirocho Rises in Fame
19527.0
武蔵と小次郎
1952
Suttobi kago
1952
Divorce
1952
Grease Paint Serenade
1952
豪快三人男
1951
The Killing of Otsuya
1951
The Official And The Princess of Thieves
1951
A Thousand Standards of Stone
1950
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
19507.0
Fencing Master
19505.7
Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
1949
Ghosts Die at Dawn
1948
Gate of Flesh
19486.0
Golden Devil Part 2
1948
Golden Devil
1948
Victory Song
19455.7
Field Army Orchestra
19447.0
Sinking the Unsinkable
1944
Miss Hanako
19439.0
The Man Who Waited
19428.0
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
19417.0
Dancers of Awa
19417.0
Iemitsu and Hikoza
1941
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
19416.5
Singing Lovebirds
19396.3
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
19389.0
Chushingura
19387.0
Kurama Tengu
19387.0
Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
19377.0
Echo of Love
1937
Beheading Place
192910.0
Samurai Town Story Part II
1929
Keai-dori
19288.0