Yasuzô Masumura

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare

Admin — Sat, 11 Aug 1973 00:00:00 +0000

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead.

Irezumi

Admin — Sat, 15 Jan 1966 00:00:00 +0000

In this elegant proto-feminist shocker from Yasuzo Masumuro, a woman forced into prostitution wreaks her spidery revenge. A mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman’s back. She and her lover are then forced into a conspiracy-born nightmare, where they face the danger of becoming the very evil they seek to escape. With each new bloody incident, the spider’s face seems to redden with ever-growing hunger…

The Bogus Student

Admin — Sat, 08 Oct 1960 00:00:00 +0000

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Afraid To Die

Admin — Tue, 22 Mar 1960 00:00:00 +0000

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently deceased father, boss of the Asahina clan. But their exit proves more difficult than planned when their rival clan steps in to exact revenge.

Giants and Toys

Admin — Sun, 22 Jun 1958 00:00:00 +0000

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

The Blue Sky Maiden

Admin — Mon, 07 Oct 1957 00:00:00 +0000

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.

Street of Shame

Admin — Sun, 18 Mar 1956 00:00:00 +0000

The personal tales of various sex workers who occupy a Japanese brothel.