Known For
Directing
Born
Feb 29, 1908
Died
Oct 29, 1993
Place of Birth
Kyoto, Japan
Credits
147 titles
Masahiro Makino
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Ronin-gai
Co-Director
The Shin Hasegawa Series
Director
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
Director
The Path of the King
Director
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny
Director
Born Fighter
Director
Woman Boss
Screenplay
Peonies And Dragons
Director
Bad Reputation: Showdown of the Best
Writer
Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
Director
The Domain: Flower and Dragon
Director
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Director
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
Director
Rogue
Director
Histories of the Chivalrous
Director
The Domain: Severed Relations
Director
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
Director
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Director
The Chivalrous Life
Director
The Domain: White Blade
Director
Debt of Honor
Director
The Domain: Duel at Thunder Gate
Director
Japan's Most Chivalrous
Director
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
Director
One Man's Chivalry
Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
Writer
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Director
Chocho and Yuji's Marital Goodness
Director
Irogotoshi harudanji
Director
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
Director
The Domain
Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
Writer
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
Screenplay
The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
Director
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
Director
Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
Director
Tattoo of Love
Director
53 Stages of Action
Screenplay
A Revengeful Raid
Director
Yakuza Official
Director
Lady Sen and Hideyori
Director
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Director
The Man Who Came to the Harbor Festival
Director
Works of the Fish Man
Director
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
Screenplay
Mask of the Moon
Director
Edo Purebreed
Director
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
Writer
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
Director
Runway to Hell
Director