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Filmmaker · Japan

Yasuzo Masumura

Died in 1986

Yasuzo Masumura was born on 25 August 1924 in Kōfu. A law graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined Daiei as an assistant, then resumed his studies in philosophy, completed in 1951. A scholarship holder in 1952 of the Experimental Centre of Cinematography in Rome, he returned to Japan and worked, from 1955, as an assistant and on second units for major directors of the studio, before directing his first film in 1957. He died in Tokyo on 23 November 1986.

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