Masahiro Makino
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.
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Films (147)
Rônin-gai
1990 · Co-Director
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
1972 · Director
The Path of the King
1971 · Director
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny
1970 · Director
Born Fighter
1970 · Director
Peonies And Dragons
1970 · Director
Woman Boss
1970 · Screenplay, Director
Bad Reputation: Showdown of the Best
1969 · Writer, Director
Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
1969 · Director, Screenplay
The Domain: Flower and Dragon
1969 · Director
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
1969 · Director
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
1968 · Director
Rogue
1968 · Director
Histories of the Chivalrous
1968 · Director
The Domain: Severed Relations
1968 · Director
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
1967 · Director
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
1967 · Director
The Chivalrous Life
1967 · Director
The Domain: White Blade
1967 · Director
Debt of Honor
1966 · Director
The Domain: Duel at Thunder Gate
1966 · Director
Japan's Most Chivalrous
1966 · Director
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
1966 · Director
One Man's Chivalry
1965 · Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
1965 · Writer, Director
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
1965 · Director
Chocho and Yuji's Marital Goodness
1965 · Director
Irogotoshi harudanji
1965 · Director
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
1965 · Director
The Domain
1964 · Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
1964 · Writer, Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
1963 · Screenplay, Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
1963 · Director, Screenplay
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
1963 · Director
Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
1963 · Director
Tattoo of Love
1963 · Director
53 Stages of Action
1963 · Screenplay, Director
A Revengeful Raid
1962 · Director, Screenplay
Yakuza Official
1962 · Director, Screenplay
Lady Sen and Hideyori
1962 · Director
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
1962 · Director
The Man Who Came to the Harbor Festival
1961 · Director
Works of the Fish Man
1961 · Director
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
1961 · Screenplay, Director
Mask of the Moon
1961 · Director
Edo Purebreed
1961 · Director
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
1960 · Writer, Director
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
1960 · Director
Runway to Hell
1960 · Director
Yakuza of Ina
1960 · Director, Screenplay
An Actor's Revenge
1959 · Director
Evil Man of Edo
1959 · Director
Echo in the Mountains
1959 · Director
Whirlwind Magistrate
1959 · Director
Goblin in Stirrups
1959 · Director
Fighting Disposition
1958 · Director
Kanbei's Bargain Sale
1958 · Director
The Traveling Ruffian
1958 · Screenplay, Director
Fearless Opposition
1958 · Director
Bull's Eye of Love
1958 · Screenplay, Director
The Ornery Entrance to the Sumo Ring with a Sword
1957 · Director
Temple of Revenge
1957 · Director
Street of Ronin
1957 · Director, Screenplay
Pure-Hearted Unit
1957 · Director
Kin Toyama-san's Detective Story: Man in the Shadows
1956 · Director
Eacape of Fear
1956 · Director
Such is Life
1955 · Screenplay, Director
Blood Festival of Akagi
1955 · Director
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
1955 · Director
Jirochô yûkyôden: Akiba no himatsuri
1955 · Director
Daikichi Konomura
1954 · Director, Screenplay
Jirocho in Disgrace
1954 · Director
Yakuza bayashi
1954 · Director, Screenplay
Last of the Wild Ones
1954 · Director
My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men
1954 · Director
Utsukushiki taka
1954 · Director
Jirocho's New Year
1954 · Director
Jirocho, the Hunted
1953 · Director
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
1953 · Director
Zoku Tange Sazen
1953 · Director
Tange Sazen
1953 · Director
Jirocho's Home-Coming
1953 · Director
Her Captive Gamblers
1953 · Director
The Last Embrace
1953 · Director
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
1953 · Director
Night in Hawaii
1953 · Director
Jirocho Rises in Fame
1952 · Director
武蔵と小次郎
1952 · Director
Suttobi kago
1952 · Director
Divorce
1952 · Director
Grease Paint Serenade
1952 · Director
豪快三人男
1951 · Director
The Killing of Otsuya
1951 · Director
The Official And The Princess of Thieves
1951 · Director
A Thousand Standards of Stone
1950 · Director
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950 · Director
Fencing Master
1950 · Director
Sugawara denju tenarai kagami
1950 · Director
Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
1949 · Director
Ghosts Die at Dawn
1948 · Director
Gate of Flesh
1948 · Director
Golden Devil Part 2
1948 · Director
Golden Devil
1948 · Director
Nonkina tosan
1946 · Director
Waiting Woman
1946 · Director
Iki na fûraibô
1946 · Director, Producer
Sennichimae fukin
1945 · Director
Victory Song
1945 · Director, Producer
The Famous Sword Bijomaru
1945 · Executive Producer
Field Army Orchestra
1944 · Director
Sinking the Unsinkable
1944 · Director
Tengu daoshi
1944 · Producer
Miss Hanako
1943 · Director
The Opium War
1943 · Director
Onna keizu
1942 · Director
The Man Who Waited
1942 · Director
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
1941 · Director
世紀は笑ふ
1941 · Director
Dancers of Awa
1941 · Director, Writer
Iemitsu and Hikoza
1941 · Director
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
1941 · Director
Zoku Shimizu Minato
1940 · Director
Oda Nobunaga
1940 · Director
Singing Lovebirds
1939 · Director
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
1938 · Director
Chushingura
1938 · Director
Kurama Tengu
1938 · Director
Jiraiya
1937 · Director
Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
1937 · Director
Echo of Love
1937 · Director
honchō kai neko Tsutō
1937 · Director
Goronbo-gai
1936 · Director
Kunisada Chūji: Shinshū komoriuta
1936 · Director, Screenplay
Banquet Under the Midnight Sun
1932 · Director
Rônin-gai - Dai-san-wa: Tsukareta hitobito
1929 · Director
Beheading Place
1929 · Director
The Demon at the Modoribashi Bridge
1929 · Director
Samurai Town Story Part II
1929 · Director
Sozenji Baba
1928 · Director
Samurai Town Story Part I
1928 · Director
Raiden
1928 · Docotr Chikuan
Keai-dori
1928 · Director
中山安兵衛
1925 · Assistant Director
Nabeshima nekô sôdô
1921
Kaiketsu Ondo maru
1916
Arima no nekô sôdô
1916
Monster-Cat of Sanno
1914
