Tag: Yasuzo Masumura

It opens to the sounds of gunfire and images of war, the dead, nothing spared, a tone which continues throughout Yasuzo Masumura’s Red Angel (赤い天使, Akai Tenshi), adapted

It is in her nature to resist, to defy what is expected of her, first in allowing herself to be seduced by an employee of her father, then

A country largely closed to outsiders for most of its history, its society built upon codes of behaviour and deference, who can say what complex circumstances and fears

A prolific filmmaker who directed almost sixty features in his career, sometimes as many as three or four a year from the late fifties to the early seventies,