Yasuzo masumura biography definition
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Masumura Yasuzo (増村保造)
Yasuzo MASUMURA (August 25, November 23, ) was a Japanese film director.
Biography and Personal Profile
He was born in Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture.
A promoter of individuality and freedom who paradoxically wound up associating these values with insanity, Masumura was no less contradictory.
He studied at Yamanashi Prefectural Kofu Daiichi High School and Daiichi High School (old-education-system), and graduated from the Faculty of Law at Tokyo University. Yukio MISHIMA was one of his acquaintances at the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo.
In he joined Daiei Motion Picture Company as an assistant director. However, he was enrolled again to study at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Literature, Tokyo University.
Yasuzo Masumura.In , He went to Italy to study under Federico FELLINI and Luchino VISCONTI among others. After he returned to Japan, he participated in filmmaking with Kenji MIZOGUCHI and Kon ICHIKAWA as an assistant director. In he made his debut as a film director with "Kisses." Since the second film directed by him "A Vivacious Girl," he had worked together with actress Ayako WAKAO,